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Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox 

09/30/2024

PLEASE NOTE: 

With the days ticking down to 11/5, learn the deeper stakes in this year's election. Get your copy of Trump & the MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election today! Choose your format in the book block below. 

Apologies to all who have been waiting, and Thank You for your patience. We too have been profoundly frustrated. The delay, we are told, was due to the colored paintings that prevented it from being printed digitally and “on demand.” So it had to go through a regular printing and shipping process. Dennis will be putting books you ordered into the mail immediately.

I remember fifty years ago, when I was teaching at Barat College, we scheduled a book signing event for 

One of the full-color pictures that made the Anti-Christ book so difficult to print: Detail from The Resurrection of the Flesh (1502), a mural by Luca Signorelli in the Orvieto Cathedral. Wikimedia Commons. 

what was my second book, Whee! We, wee all the Way Home: Toward a Sensual, Prophetic Spirituality. But the books did not arrive in time for the party! 

One Sacred Heart Sister, who was older, bright, funny and always wore her headdress a bit askew, went around saying, “a book signing without a book! A book signing without a book! That’s like a wedding without a bride; or a funeral without a corpse.” She was right.

Nuns having a little too much fun on the run! From a 2012 production of Nunsense at Otterbein University. Wikimedia Commons. 

Better to laugh than to stew.

Of course, the time crunch for this book is like no other, because one of the reasons for the book is to keep Trump and MAGA out of the White House. Time is of the essence for this very important election.  

With that in mind, there is an event

I want to bring to your attention on Thursday, October 3, this week. CSC—Creation Spirituality Communities—the non-profit run by some of the graduates of our CS programs over the years (and other people too)—is sponsoring a free Zoom event from 1-2 PM PT on Thursday afternoon. It will be recorded, so you can see it at another time if that works best for you.  In this “Call to Action” call, I will be speaking about the new book, AND we will brainstorm about how best to use it as a tool for the election.  

Some ideas that have come my way are these: 

• To spread the word and share the book to as many potential voters as possible and especially in the states that will decide the election. 
• To write a short paragraph review for Amazon book section (to do that one has to purchase the book on amazon however). 
• To contact local radio stations or podcasts you respect, or TV programs that interview authors, to let them know about the book. 
• Share my recent 12 minute interview on the Thom Hartmann show (see link below). 
• Organize your own Zoom gathering to discuss it in churches, synagogues, temples or elsewhere.

We have sent it to all Democratic congress people and senators, so you can contact their offices to include it in their toolboxes. Etc, etc.

Michelle Obama urges us to “Do something!” And this is my some-thing, which I gave very rapid birth to following our workshop in Orvieto

Is Trump the Anti-Christ? This Theologian has Proof. Matthew Fox interviewed on the Thom Hartmann  show, September 19, 2024. 

this summer. I started it the second week of July and now it is here. I hope it assists an important cause. I appreciate readers of the DM spreading the word too.

See Matthew Fox, Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election. 

And Fox, Whee! We, Wee all the Way Home: Toward a Sensual, Prophetic Spirituality. 

And Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society. 

And Fox, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth. 

And Fox, Hildegard of Bingen, A Saint for Our Times: Unleashing Her Power in the 21st Century. 

Banner image: Matthew Fox at a book signing in Louisville, KY with the poet Norbert Kraft, 2012. From Matthew Fox’s archives. 

Statement of Solidarity with Israel/Palestine.

Responses are welcomed. To add your comment, or read other comments and enter into dialog, please click HERE to go to our website and scroll down to the Comments field.

Queries for Contemplation

Do you have more ideas for getting the word out fast about the SCOTUS and MAGA and Trump as antichrist book? Let us hear them, share them in the Comments section please. 

Recommended Reading

Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election

Matthew Fox tells us that he had always shied away from using the term “Anti-Christ” because it was so often used to spread control and fear. However, given today’s rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables in this book employing the archetype for the cause of justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity.
For immediate access to Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election, order the e-book with 10 full-color prints from Amazon HERE. 
To get a print-on-demand paperback copy with black & white images, order from Amazon HERE or IUniverse HERE. 
To receive a limited-edition, full-color paperback copy, order from MatthewFox.org HERE.
Order the audiobook HERE for immediate download.

Whee! We, Wee All the Way Home: A Guide to Sensual Prophetic Spirituality

Years ahead of its time when first published in 1976, this book is still bold and relevant today. Perfect for anyone who thinks mysticism needs to get out of the head and into the body. Matthew Fox begins the Preface to this book by stating, “This is a practical book about waking up and returning to a biblical, justice-oriented spirituality. Such a spirituality is a way of passion that leads to compassion. Such a way is necessarily one of coming to our senses in every meaning of that phrase.” One of Matthew Fox’s earliest books, this title explores the importance of ecstasy in the spiritual life. Fox considers the distinction between “natural” ecstasies (including nature, sex, friendship, music, art) and “tactical” ecstasies (like meditation, fasting, chanting); he goes on to consider that a truly authentic mysticism must be sensuous in its orientation, so to cultivate the maximum amount of ecstasy for the maximum amount of people.

Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society

Visionary theologian and best-selling author Matthew Fox offers a new theology of evil that fundamentally changes the traditional perception of good and evil and points the way to a more enlightened treatment of ourselves, one another, and all of nature. In comparing the Eastern tradition of the 7 chakras to the Western tradition of the 7 capital sins, Fox allows us to think creatively about our capacity for personal and institutional evil and what we can do about them. 
“A scholarly masterpiece embodying a better vision and depth of perception far beyond the grasp of any one single science.  A breath-taking analysis.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, author of Quantum Theology: Spiritual Implications of the New Physics

Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth

Fox’s spirituality weds the healing and liberation found in North American Creation Spirituality and in South American Liberation Theology. Creation Spirituality challenges readers of every religious and political persuasion to unite in a new vision through which we learn to honor the earth and the people who inhabit it as the gift of a good and just Creator.
“A watershed theological work that offers a common ground for religious seekers and activists of all stripes.” — Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice.

Hildegard of Bingen, A Saint for Our Times: Unleashing Her Power in the 21st Century

Matthew Fox writes in Hildegard of Bingen about this amazing woman and what we can learn from her.
In an era when women were marginalized, Hildegard was an outspoken, controversial figure. Yet so visionary was her insight that she was sought out by kings, popes, abbots, and bishops for advice. 
“This book gives strong, sterling, and unvarnished evidence that everything – everything – we ourselves become will affect what women after us may also become….This is a truly marvelous, useful, profound, and creative book.” ~~ Andrew Harvey, author of The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism.

The Return of Father Sky: A Cosmic Mystery for Kids of All Ages

The second book in the Father Fox’s Fantastical Fables series, The Return of Father Sky helps boys and girls to celebrate a new relationship with the masculine by way of Father Sky, whose return excites joy and wonder and possibility that enlarge the soul to welcome others and all creation. Written in a rhyming Dr. Seuss-like style, this full-color, beautifully illustrated book, written by world- renowned theologian Matthew Fox weaves together modern science and classic spirituality in a whimsical, entertaining format to illustrate important truths to readers aged 4 and up. With artwork curated from illustrators around the world, this book expresses the joy and wonder of all peoples and cultures, planting seeds of respect, cooperation and hope to work together for the healing of our planet.

UPCOMING EVENTS

See Matthew Fox's full calendar HERE

MONTHLY: Join Matthew Fox, Mariko Middleton, and Skylar Wilson of the Order of the Sacred Earth in a free virtual meeting for connection and networking with other mystic warriors. Last Tuesday of every month, 4:00-5:00pm PT. 
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88665302478  
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Learn more at www.orderofthesacredearth.org

Free Virtual Event: Join Matthew Fox and the Creation Spirituality Communities' Global Kinship monthly Zoom meeting on Thursday, October 3, 1:00-2:30 PM PT. Matthew will discuss a Call To Action regarding his new book, Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election. In this lecture, discussion, and Q&A, together we will brainstorm about how to use this book to keep Trump out of the White House, and put Harris/Walz in. Call will be recorded. 

Register HERE. 

Creation Spirituality Conversations

Bannon, former Trump advisor and former Executive Chairman at Breitbart News. He explains how Cardinal Burke and other neofascists in the Catholic Church opposed the Second Vatican Council, which sought to update the Catholic Church. He then explains how both Leonard Leo (co-chairman of the Federalist Society board of directors, who drew up lists of potential conservative judges who were then appointed to the Supreme Court) and Kevin Roberts from the Heritage Foundation, share a right-wing Catholic ideology.

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