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Two Republican Presidents:
“I am not a dictator.” “I am not a crook.”By Matthew Fox 8/30/2025 |
On Tuesday this week
our sitting president said at a most unusual cabinet meeting that “I am not a dictator.” Then he went on to say he could do “whatever I want” as president and that “many” Americans want a dictator. |
That he can do whatever he wants is a lie. There are—or are meant to be—checks and balances in the American system of democracy on each of the three branches of government. But from a practical point of view, the president may be spot-on. He so owns the souls of so- |
Jen Psaki shares clips of the sycophantic fawning of White House Cabinet members, illustrating why the current tenant thinks “a lot of people say” he should be a dictator. MSNBC. |
called representatives of the American Congress that they will do whatever he asks of them lest they lose their next election. Cabinet members at that strange meeting each tried to outdo the other in flattering the president –“you have saved the whales” said one, and “you deserve a Nobel Peace
Prize” said another, all around the table. Congress is both supine and sycophant. And bought. Apparently not one Republican elected to House or Senate has any soul left. What do they say to their children and grandchildren? And great grandchildren to come? How do they respond to the questions posed by poet Drew Dellinger? |
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| It’s 3:23 in the morning and I’m
awake
because my great great grandchildren won’t let me sleep
my great great grandchildren ask me in dreams
what did you do when the planet was plundered? What did
you do when the earth was unraveling
surely you did something
when the seasons started failing? |
as the mammals,
reptiles, birds were all dying? Did you fill
the streets with protests
when democracy was stolen?
what did you do once
you knew?* The truth is they not only did nothing, they allowed the EPA to be dismantled. They defunded money for alternative energy sources. They gave billionaires (many of them fossil fuel champions) a trillion dollars of tax breaks. They wallow in denial of the reality of climate change. They passed a budget that will burden regular citizens with $4 trillion of
additional tax burdens including interest on the give-away. They cut Medicaid for 17 million people and food for hungry veterans and others. They did exactly what they did with laws to curb gun violence such as occurred this week in a Catholic Church with school kids beginning a new school year. Nothing. Nothing but
continued support for the NRA and the corporations that manufacture guns. |
Hearing the president pronounce that “I am not a dictator” sounds awfully déjà vu to me. I am old enough to have heard Richard Nixon say, “I am not a crook.” But months later, with the release of secret tapes he made of White House phone calls demanded by a then- |
President Richard Nixon before his resignation speech, with White House Deputy Special Assistant Alvin Snyder, August 9, 1974. Wikimedia Commons |
reliable Supreme Court, everyone knew he was a crook. Republican senators and congressmen went to him and said he must quit the presidency. He left. Imagine that!
Today’s corrupt SCOTUS is completely owned by the wannabe dictator president. As conservative and respected Judge J. Michael Luttig put it in his recent Substack: The Supreme
Court is never going to stop this intentional and deliberate corruption of the Federal Judiciary and Rule of Law by this President and his Attorney General…until the American People stand up and cry out ‘No More. We’ve had enough. We are a nation of laws, not of men.’" **
Unlike Nixon and Trump, the first-ever
Republican president Abraham Lincoln believed in the American experiment in democracy and defined it this way: “That government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from this earth.” We are currently very close to that experiment perishing. Time for all hands on deck resisting, organizing,
demanding and speaking truth to power in whatever ways we can. |
* Drew Dellinger, “hieroglyphic stairway” in Drew Dellinger, Love Letter to the Milky Way (Ashland, Oregon, White Cloud Press: 2011).
**Judge J. Michael Luttig, “Trump & Bondi versus the Rule of Law” on Substack.com. See also his interview on The Last Word with Laurence O’Donnell, Ali Velshi hosting, August 27, 2025..
See Matthew Fox, Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ.
And Fox, Sins of the
Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul & Society.
And Fox, “Opus Dei,” in Fox, The Pope’s War: Why Ratzinger’s Secret Crusade Has Imperiled the Church and How It Can Be Saved.
And Fox, Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality.
And Fox, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth.
And Fox, Letters to Pope Francis, p. 8.
Banner Image: The Minneapolis community gathered at Lynnhurst Park last night for a vigil following the mass shooting at
Annunciation School and Church earlier in the morning that left two children dead and 17 others injured. Photo by Chad Davis on Flickr. |
Mystic-Warriors at the Roof of the World In Monday's DM, we shared the story of Marianne Grosspietsch and the Shanti Leprosy Aid organization of Nepal: faced with the loss of food from USAID, her community is planting thousands of fruit trees to nourish the hungry in the region while mitigating the effects of climate change.
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Queries for Contemplation Do you look ahead to what
your children, grandchildren and great grandchdren are asking about “What did you do when the planet was plundered? And democracy was stolen?” What can we tell them? |
Responses are welcomed. To add
your comment, or read other comments and enter into dialogue, please click HERE to go to our website and scroll down to the Comments field. |
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.
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.
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images, order from Amazon HERE or IUniverse HERE.
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Order the audiobook HERE for immediate download. |
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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 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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Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality
Matthew Fox lays out a whole new direction for Christianity—a direction that is in fact very ancient and very grounded in
Jewish thinking (the fact that Jesus was a Jew is often neglected by Christian theology): the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality, the Vias Positiva, Negativa, Creativa and Transformativa in an extended and deeply developed way.
“Original Blessing makes available to the Christian world and to the human community a radical cure for all dark and derogatory views of the natural world wherever these may
have originated.” –Thomas Berry, author, The Dream of the Earth; The Great Work; co-author, The Universe Story |
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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.
“I am reading Liberating Gifts for the People of the Earth by Matt Fox. He is one that fills my heart and mind for new life in spite of so much that is violent in our world.” ~ Sister Dorothy Stang. |
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Letters to Pope Francis
Matthew Fox challenges the new Pope to live up to the promise of his namesake St. Francis and reshape a church that has been mired in corruption and bereft of authentic spirituality
and rigorous theological debate. Former Dominican priest Matthew Fox presents a series of heartfelt letters to his brother in Christ about the great challenges facing the church today, drawing from the deep spiritual and theological sources that have been suppressed since Vatican II, and implores him to restore the sensus fidelium (the sense of the faithful) and reshape a church with justice and compassion. |
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UPCOMING EVENTS See Matthew Fox's full calendar HERE Join Matthew Fox as he discusses his book, Whee! We, Wee All the Way Home: A Guide to Sensual, Prophetic Spirituality, in an online Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat. Thursday, September 18, 4:00pm-5:30pm PT. Register HERE. Join Matthew Fox as he discusses his book, Meditations with Meister Eckhart in an online Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat. Thursday, October 16, 4:00pm-5:30pm PT. Register HERE. Join spiritual pioneers Dr. Matthew Fox and Rev. Cameron Trimble for “In Search of a New Story: Reimagining What Comes Next,” a timely and transformative 4-part series featuring conversations with some of the most compelling wisdom voices of our time: Carolyn Myss, Diana Butler Bass,
Luther Smith, and Ilia Delio. Thursdays, October 23, 30, and November 13, 20, 4:00pm-5:30pm PT Register HERE. |
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In this 6-month immersion program with Matthew, you’ll explore what it means to be a modern mystic and prophet, integrating this sacred knowledge into your life through the authentic teachings of Jesus and other wisdom keepers. This journey births what Matthew calls Christianity 2.0 — based not on dogma, but on a spirituality that recovers the sacred sense of original goodness. By Application only - apply HERERegister for a free information session HERE |
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MONTHLY: Join Matthew Fox 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.
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Creation Spirituality Conversations |
Matthew Fox and Fr. Bede Griffiths each lecture for approximately 30 minutes followed by 30 minutes of dialogue. 91 minutes. 1990. You will receive a secure link to the file to download. |
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