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Week of 10/14-19/2024:
Politics, Resentment & Forgiveness 10/6/2024 |
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October 14, 2024: Blessed Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024!
Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Matthew remembers fondly those indigenous elders who have had a great impact on his life. Among them: Buck Ghosthorse, Lakota teacher and
friend; Sister Jose Hobday, Seneca elder and Franciscan sister; Eddie Kneebone, Aboriginal elder and activist; and Rod McAfee, an Akimel O’odham elder and husband to Linda Neale, author of The Power of Ceremony: Restoring the Sacred in Our Selves, Our Families, Our
Communities. Matthew wishes that all peoples of the earth could learn to pray as indigenous peoples teach us. Maybe then we would work together to save the Earth and recover a common sense of the Sacred that surrounds us every day in every way. |
October 15, 2024: Will America Replace a Weak
Democracy with a Strong Theocracy?
If Trump wins, the same gang (Opus Dei) that gave us six ultra-right-wing Supreme Court judges, also advanced a far-right-wing Catholic VP one step away from the presidency, namely JD Vance. In contrast to Biden’s and Nancy Pelosi’s life-long Vatican II Catholicism, with its emphasis on social justice, Vance’s version of
Catholicism, which he adopted five years ago, is in tune with that of Kevin Roberts. According to an article by The Guardian: “Kevin Roberts, architect of Project 2025, has close ties to radical Catholic group Opus Dei.” Roberts’ book on Project 2025, pulled at the last minute after Vance was nominated as vice president, includes a Foreword by Vance praising Roberts for articulating a genuinely new future for conservatism…. Those who vote for Trump/Vance are clearly voting for Opus Dei and displacing a democracy with a theocracy. Is this really what Americans want? |
October 16, 2024: Thom Hartmann on a “Secular” or “Political” Antichrist
These days, it’s difficult not to make comparisons with one particular presidential candidate and the Antichrist. Hildegard of Bingen raged
in the 12th century about how the Antichrist had entered Mother Church, bloodied her, and tried to take her over. Four hundred years later came the fresco painted by Luca Signorelli which inspired Matthew’s new book on Trump and MAGA as the Antichrist. And now we have political commentator Thom Hartmann publishing an article the morning of the presidential debate between Trump and Harris called “Will Donald Trump Reveal Himself Tonight as the Antichrist?” Hartmann cites Jesus’ warning about “false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.” He is a “father of lies” and “by their fruits you will
know them.” Trump’s “fruits” are pretty obvious to anyone paying attention. Is Donald Trump the Anti-Christ? Matthew Fox proves Donald Trump and the MAGA movement are embodying the anti-Christ archetype in our time. Thom Hartmann Program |
October 17, 2024: Rupert Sheldrake on the Politics & Science of Resentment
How it is that Donald Trump, for all his obvious shortcomings, has so great a following among American voters? In the book,
Natural Grace: dialogues on creation, darkness, and the soul in spirituality and science, which Matthew co-authored with Rupert Sheldrake, they talk about grief and resentment. Rupert says that when we’re in a state of resentment, we link with those who’ve been in a state of resentment. He says: Our souls are influenced by the souls of others and by the collective psyches of our families, our nations, our religious traditions. How can we free ourselves from
this resentment? October 18, 2024: Resentment & The Politics of Resentment, continued
Matthew believes that resentment is the simmering hatred that makes itself known in the present. He says: “We fool ourselves if we underestimate its power for destruction.” Politicians, for instance, love to exploit resentment for their own purposes. Hitler knew a lot about resentment and the trick of creating scapegoats; otherwise he could not have achieved his programs of destruction. Meanwhile, in today’s presidential politics where Mr. Trump talks openly of
imprisoning and executing his rivals, resentment is a sign of the Antichrist. Matthew says: “There is only one cure for resentment and that is forgiveness.” |
2017 LGBT Solidarity Rally in front of the Stonewall Inn in solidarity with every immigrant, asylum seeker, refugee and every person impacted by Donald Trump’s policies. Wikimedia Commons. |
October 19, 2024: From Resentment to Forgiveness: A Path to Freedom
The opposite of Resentment is Forgiveness, and Forgiveness can be a path to freedom. In order for forgiveness to happen, a great love
is required, a love that beckons one to another place, another relationship. Forgiveness happens. Forgiveness is possible. Matthew once met a woman whose teenage son had been murdered in a drive-by killing in Los Angeles. They convicted the killer, who was about the same age as her son. She visited him in prison frequently and gradually they became friends. It turns out he grew up without a mother. She told Matthew that the friendship gave meaning to her son’s death. It
also gives us meaning and hope to know that the human heart is big enough that it can move beyond hate and resentment to forgiveness. |
Banner image: “Forgiveness is like the scent of a flower that clings to the heel of the boot that crushed it.” Photo by Judith Jackson on Flickr.
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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.
From the Foreword: If there was ever a time, a moment, for examining the archetype of the Antichrist, it is now…Read this book with an open mind. Good and evil are real forces in our world. ~~ Caroline
Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit and Conversations with the Divine.
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The Pope’s War: Why Ratzinger’s Secret Crusade Has Imperiled the Church and How It Can Be Saved
The Pope’s War offers a provocative look at three decades of corruption in the
Catholic Church, focusing on Josef Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI. The final section in the book focuses on birthing a truly catholic Christianity.
“This book should be read by everybody, not only for its ferocious courage, but also for its vision for what needs to be saved from the destructive forces that threaten authentic Christianity.” ~ Andrew Harvey, author of The Hope.
“In the gripping The Pope’s War, Matthew Fox takes an unwavering look at the layers of corruption in the Catholic Church, holding moral truth against power.” — Jason Berry, author of Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II |
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Natural Grace: Dialogues on Creation, Darkness, and the Soul in Spirituality and Science
by Matthew Fox and Rupert Sheldrake
Natural Grace, a
208 page inspired dialogue between theologian Matthew Fox and scientist Rupert Sheldrake, unites wisdom and knowledge from unconventional angles. Considering themselves heretics in their own fields, Matthew and Rupert engage the conversation from postmodern and post-postmodern perspectives, deconstructing both religion and science—while setting the foundation for a new emerging worldview. Having outgrown the paradigms in which they were raised, both Fox and Sheldrake see it as part of their life
missions to share the natural synthesis of spirituality and science rooted in a paradigm of evolutionary cosmology.
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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 |
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The Return of Father Sky
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. |
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Creation Spirituality Conversations Matthew Fox & James Twyman in conversation on Trump & MAGA as Antichrist |
Namaste Village hosted Matthew Fox & James Twyman in conversation on Matthew’s new book,
Trump & the MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election. With days ticking down to 11/5, discover the AntiChrist archetype as a searing device for understanding the deeper stakes in the #2024election. |
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