Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox

#Evil has an agenda to spread. #Lies are important to that agenda. #Truth needs to be disregarded. By ignoring truth, one makes #justice impossible. bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

Today: The Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox It so happens that this past Sunday, I had the privilege of attending a rich seminar on the Black Madonna taught by Christena Cleveland, PhD, author of God Is a Black Woman. And on Monday night, Aless...

There is another way to see the world, rather than power-over. That is the way of “God-with-us” instead of “God-over-us.” #Fascism is all about God and God wanna-bes exerting power over us. “God-with-us” is the very meaning of #Emmanuel so true to the season of #Advent&Christmas. bit.ly/4rSncBv

There's a special relationship btw the via negativa & the via transformativa: as we learn more sensitivity from suffering, we tune more into the suffering of others, & moral imagination (vias creativa & transformativa) engages to assist in the relief of the suffering of others. bit.ly/3X5SbMD

As long as humans bog down in addictive superficialities from #consumer-driven economic culture, we'll be locked in a squirrel cage of #work&spend w/ no time to ask: Why am I here? What can I offer? How do I give back my #love, #gratitude & #wisdom? #MeaningfulHolidays #Advent bit.ly/4kxtIcG

#Spirituality (unlike much organized #religion) is about the #wisdom we all carry inside of us: The dreams, the aspirations, the yearning of #soul, the ability to let go, to forgive, to move on, to struggle, to survive, to care, to be strong, to honor what is beautiful & what matters. bit.ly/4kxtIcG

Ingratitude in the Religion Silicon Valley Billionaires Are Pushing - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox We have been meditating on gratitude in recent DMs. The peculiar religion being pushed by certain Silicon Valley billionaires currently in very high places in American politics strikes me as being ver...

Death is a reminder that one’s life, the greatest gift we are given, has both a beginning & an end.
What gifts do we choose to leave behind in that interval? Gifts that endure, gifts that uplift, gifts that offer joy & justice for others, including the neediest? Gifts of appreciation? bit.ly/4rLj6Ll

Facing continual news of the collapse of planetary systems & #democracy, w/ billionaires controlling the #media, we need #innerstrength & #commitment to put the #commongood, #community, #conscience, #truth & #justice, & the #health of #MotherEarth & future generations 1st. bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

MLKJr: "Join w/ the Earth & each other to bring new life to the land, to restore the waters, to refresh the air, to renew the forests, to care for the plants, to protect the creatures, to celebrate the seas, to recall our destiny, to renew our spirits, to reinvigorate our bodies..." bit.ly/4kxtIcG

Gratitude & The Via Positiva in the Midst of Dark Times - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox This past week I was struck by an article for Thanksgiving Day written by Thom Hartmann, whom I consider one of the most courageous and lucid prophetic writers of our time. I have been referring to hi...

#Gratitude for our amazing world—do we take time out for that? How amazing this universe is, all two trillion galaxies of it, all the hundreds of billions of stars & planets in each galaxy. All 13.8 bn years of it that have invited our species aboard. #RadicalAmazement is required. bit.ly/4pSFdOg

There can be no #community w/o a quest for #facts and #truths we can share in common. #Lies will tear communities apart from the inside out, indeed from "a #schism in the human heart." (~Jungian teacher Sue Mehrtens) bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

It is the #artist's gift to remind us of the depths of #goodness & the depths of #evil that #humanity carries within us. bit.ly/3Tz8mQW
Image: Richard Mansfield portrays Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, 1887.

#MeisterEckhart: We are all born "from the highest & best that a #creature possesses" & from "the most intimate depths of the #divine nature & its #wilderness." Here lie our #origins, our noble & divine origins. bit.ly/3Tz8mQW
Photo: Talo Ursera, Flickr

We are witnessing the death of institutions & systems, & an era that is not serving us nor our Mother Earth well any longer. Nothing short of what @davidkorten.bsky.social calls “A New Enlightenment” will suffice in activating the energies & insights needed at this important time. bit.ly/3Ql5rsN

The #Magnificat is a good antidote vs. those trying to displace #democracy w/ #autocracy. "He has routed the proud of heart. He has pulled down #princes from their thrones & exalted the #lowly. The #hungry he has filled w/ good things, the #rich sent empty away." #liberationtheology bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

Thank you for spreading the word, Martha; looking forward to seeing you there.

Hope: What Good Journalism & Citizens Rising Up Can Accomplish - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox In yesterday’s DM, we celebrated a victory for the free press and how The Guardian stood up to Trump’s $250 million lawsuit against them and won. We also honored writers like Mary Trump, Gil Duran and...

@hartmannreport.com tells how “America’s Voting Rights were stolen in 2024”: via "Jim Crow 2.0…old-fashioned, systematic campaign of voter suppression similar to the ones that characterized the 50 yrs [after] the collapse of Reconstruction. The media still has yet to acknowledge it." bit.ly/48O8NyE

#Fascism in all its incarnations constitutes a faux version of #masculinity & is incompatible with the #Christ. It is the opposite, a sign of the #Antichrist. bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

Trump vs. The Media: A Guardian Victory & Lessons For Media Who Grovel - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox Today, Saturday morning, I received some good news in the mail from The Guardian. A judge threw out a $250 million case against them from Donald Trump’s media company. The suit goes back to March, 202...

From @timothysnyder.bsky.social: #1 in 20 Lessons on Fighting #Tyranny fr the 20th Century: "#1. Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given... indivs think ahead about what a more repressive gov't will want, & then offer themselves w/o being asked." bit.ly/4isNRjW

Thank you for sharing this, Martha!

indeed...and it was the opening to a life of increased creativity and expression, including the Cosmic Mass, Wisdom Education pedagogy, and more.

Let every man know that true #manliness isn't about power-over or the domination that #rape signifies. True manliness & #virility are about #virtue (vir means man in Latin). Let us teach that to our boys & men, court judges, politicians & media-buying billionaires. bit.ly/4kJtcbH

Matthew Fox was unilaterally removed from the Dominican order by then-head of the Inquisition, Josef Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict). He was not defrocked, however, and is now a priest in the Episcopalian Church.

David French: "Our people #hate the right people" = "language of #grievance & #anger. There's a better way for #men - for all of us. It's rooted in #honor, #courage, and #love." bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

Our Holy Ancestors: Resistance Takes Many Forms, Part II - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox In yesterday’s DM, we spoke of the resistance going on in our time. Honoring people of courage and values is a kind of resistance, also. We sometimes call them saints for what they have undergone in d...

A season of #Thanksgiving and remembering our #ancestors, #heroes & #everydaysaints helps us to build inner strength and steel ourselves for #resistance in many forms. Vive moral imagination! Photo: Artist John Nava honors the #communionofsaints in tapestry. bit.ly/4akiu94

Yes, it is a photo of the tracks into Auschwitz. Wikimedia.

Andrew Harvey: The #Antichrist's plan "is to rubble the #divine image in #humanity & inaugurate a worldwide #authoritarian empire of lies & cruelty that has been exposed in #Project2025." bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

Resistance Takes Many Forms - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox The purpose of the daily meditations, as promised when we launched six years ago, is to assist in “praying the news” and not just watching it. This imperative has increased as we watch the terror of o...

#PopeLeo: "We have to look for ways of treating people humanely, treating people with the dignity that they have. If people are in the United States illegally, there are ways to treat that. There are courts. There’s a system of justice.” #JusticeAndMercy #RuleOfLaw bit.ly/4oX35A2

That #masculinity is in flux (& should be, given #patriarchy's damages & excesses) is no secret. But MAGA's definition is problematic: centering on #grievance & #anger leaves a lot out. bit.ly/4kJtcbH

#ConnectWithFatherSky: #Men, leave the city for a place where you can see the #stars. Lie down and look up. Drink it all in. What are you feeling? How big is the #Cosmos? How big are you? bit.ly/4kJtcbH

There's a special relationship btw the via negativa & the via transformativa: as we learn more sensitivity from suffering, we tune more into the suffering of others, & moral imagination (vias creativa & transformativa) engages to assist in the relief of the suffering of others. bit.ly/3X5SbMD