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What makes a “Real Man”? - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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We continue our meditations on healthy masculinity since it was young men in particular who essentially elected Mr. Trump on November 5. In the Conclusion chapter of my book on the Sacred Masculine is a section called “False Masculinity: Real Men Eat Beef,” where I observe how society is...
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Hildegard on the Anti-Christ, continued - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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We are meditating on Hildegard’s painting of the antichrist. She paints an ugly head breaking loose from a mother figure and the head is topped with human dung. A monstrous and very black head appeared, having fiery eyes and ears like the ears of an ass and nostrils and mouth like the...
on Sep 5
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We are meditating on the healthy masculinity—what I call the “sacred masculine”–because one of the clear lessons from the recent election was that young men voted for the declared winner by 56% to 44%. And the declared winner is by no means a model of a healthy masculinity. Not only did he...
on Fri, 6PM
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Practices for Recovering an Authentic Masculinity - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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One of the dimensions of my book on the The Hidden Spirituality of Men that most delighted the hostesses of the She SAID Talks podcast was the practices that I include in that book. So it strikes me that if we are to move on from patriarchy—a move that is absolutely essential if we are to survive […]
on Fri, 1AM
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In yesterday’s DM, I paid homage to my friend Donald Reeves who was a no-nonsense critic of injustice and of religious tiredness. In the previous two DMs, we meditated on Otto Rank’s cure for ailing democracy, paying more attention to what he called the “irrational” dimension to life and...
on Tue, 8PM
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Donald Reeves, Friend, Spiritual/Religious Pioneer and Prophet - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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I recently learned that an important spiritual leader and friend died a few weeks ago on Halloween. It was not unexpected, as he was suffering from serious Alzheimer’s at the end of his life, so in that sense his death was a blessing for him and his partner Peter Peltz, who was caring for him […]
on Mon, 7PM
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Yesterday we considered Otto Rank’s medicine for an ailing democracy. Rank was living at a time like ours, the rise of fascism and the dangerous irrationality of culture and politics in the late 1930’s. Just before WWII broke out. He was alert to what he called the “violent distortions” of the...
on Nov 17
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Otto Rank on Curing a Weakening Democracy - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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There will be post-mortems emerging on the recent election surely. But one concern is this: 87 million Americans eligible to vote chose not to—the greatest number of non-voters in American history. Millions more Americans chose to turn their back on today’s version of democracy than did those...
on Nov 15
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What Happened Ten Days Ago Today? - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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Ten days ago a majority of Americans linked hands with Christian nationalists, neo-Nazis, and Putin–the first invader of a European sovereign nation since WWII. Now many are dancing in the streets in joy and celebration. They linked hands too with 1,500 people in prison for having invaded the...
on Nov 14
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Are We Made For These Times? More Practices from Kaira Jewel - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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Are we really made for these times? Are we up to it spiritually? What does it take spiritually speaking to be up for times like ours? Can we ground ourselves in practices that work for us while not getting overly attached to any one practice as Meister Eckhart taught? Can we be curious about...
on Nov 13
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From Buddhism: More Spiritual Practices To Deal with Grief - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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This past year a very fine book came out with a title that seems to speak to our situation today. It is called We Were Made For These Times: 10 Lessons for Moving Through Change, Loss, and Disruption. Its author is Kaira Jewel Lingo who was a nun in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Buddhist community for 16...
on Nov 13
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Veterans Day, 2024 - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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I am thinking on this Veterans Day 2024 of the veterans in my family, and how they would respond to the election of this past week. I am thinking of a great, great, great, great uncle (not sure I have all the “greats” counted correctly), who we are told was an officer in the Union […]
on Nov 12
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Grief Rituals for a Time of Rupture, Distress & Rising Fascism - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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There is a grief ritual that I can heartily recommend at this time of profound distress and dread and even doom. But also potential grace. I received it as a gift years ago from a shaman friend when I was going through a profound grief experience. Remember that grief has three layers to it:...
on Nov 8
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Election 2024: The Day After - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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Today is a very dark day—to put it mildly–for America and democracy and the future of Mother Earth and her creatures and the world. And women and Ukrainians and Palestinians and Europeans and many others. Following are a few responses to America’s election that I have received from a variety of...
on Nov 7
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Election Day and My Father’s Birthday - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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I write this on the morning of Election Day. A lot of waiting and patience awaits us all today and maybe tomorrow. Today is also my father’s birthday. Were he still living, he would be 110 years old today. I write this at my desk with his picture on it, actually a picture of him and myself...
on Nov 6
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Trump, Evil and the 7 Capital Sins and 7 Distorted Chakras - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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In my first and major study on Evil, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul & Society, I sought a new language for talking about Evil. This because so much of Western religion has so oversold sin that Westerners have an underdeveloped grasp of Evil. I cite...
on Nov 5
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On Evil, the Sacred, and What is at Stake in this Election - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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I recognize quite a list of issues and choices at stake in this year’s presidential election. Otherwise I would not have written a book on Christ and Anti-Christ, the Sacred and Evil. (Christ being a name for the Sacred; and Anti-Christ being a name and archetype for Evil.) Let us name some:...
on Nov 4
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Equality and Love: Eckhart on Jesus and Democracy, continued - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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We continue our meditation on Jesus and democracy from yesterday’s DM. If we are so noble as Eckhart speaks of, then an equality ought to reign between us all. We should all be treated as equals in our basic rights and needs and treat others as equals. That is a premise of democracy—“all men...
on Nov 3
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Dark Money, Billionaires, & the Death of Earth & Democracy - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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Do you wonder why the election is as close as it is? One reason might be this statistic: $2 billion has been pumped into the 2024 election by 150 billionaires–and most was for Trump.* One of the signs of the antichrist in our day is the role of the powerful oppressing the many with dark money. […]
on Oct 31
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Fascism AND Christofascism are on the Ballot - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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Rivers of news reports are flooding out from the media about the explicitly fascist realities of Trump and MAGA followers at Sunday’s Madison Square Garden event. An event which made that clear to everyone and which we meditated on in yesterday’s DM. If you want fascism and Christofascism, a...
on Oct 30
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Trump’s Fascist Rally at Madison Square Garden - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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“Fascism on Full Display” says one headline about Donald Trump’s MAGA rally at Madison Square Garden Sunday night. And this after the warnings from his head of the Joint Chief of Staff last week that Trump is a “fascist to the core” and from his longest serving chief of staff, another four-star...
on Oct 29
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Praying the News: Navalny, Stang, Gutierrez, Trumpian Fascism - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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When we began these Daily Meditations some six years ago, one way I described its purpose was that we “pray the news” and not just watch it. This past week’s news had enough in it to render one’s prayer dizzy. Learning that one presidential candidate praised Hitler, and was characterized by a...
on Oct 28
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The Course of Miracles on The Antichrist: Part I - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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I have often credited the book, A Course in Miracles, with awakening many people to their mystical selves and this is a great contribution in a culture where religion as a whole has failed to do that. But recently, after finishing my book on Trump & MAGA as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024...
on Oct 25
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Phil Wilson’s Blunt Truths on Global Warming, Fascism, Trump - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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A recent commentary on the current presidential election begins with this headline: “Donald Trump’s MAGA Death Cult Is Coming for Us All.” And the subtitle to the article reads like this: Any serious discussion of Trump leads to one conclusion: something terrible, vast, and irredeemable has...
on Oct 24
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Men Leaving the Workforce & Trump’s Appeal to Resentment - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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One wonders why the presidential race is as close as it is. One reason giving is that many young men are contemplating voting for Trump. Here is one headline, “Young men’s economic prospects are shifting along with their politics.”* The primary cause for this shift, we are told, is typified in...
on Oct 23
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Big Heart, Big Sky, & Origins of Life in Father Sky - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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A big heart is generous and has learned how to forgive. The word “generous” bears within it the word genesis and beginnings. Beginnings are sacred. A big heart “looks up to the sky” when troubles arise, as the psalmist sings about. Prayer can be a turning to the mountains and to the vast sky...
on Oct 22
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The Freedom that Forgiveness Brings - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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We meditated last week on the role that Resentment and Scapegoating play in our current politics—a role that characterized the politics of Germany in the 1930’s under Hitler. It’s imperative that we remember this. We meditated on how a person or a group of persons move on from resentment by way...
on Oct 21
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From Resentment to Forgiveness: A Path to Freedom - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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The opposite of Resentment is Forgiveness and Forgiveness can be a path to freedom. The phrase “refusal to forgive” suggests that there is an invitation, perhaps even a constant invitation, to forgive. Where is this invitation or calling coming from? Were it only coming from an individual who...
on Oct 19
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Resentment & The Politics of Resentment, continued - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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In yesterday’s DM, biologist Rupert Sheldrake instructed us on how resentment and those who preach it can create an entire culture or political movement around it. One wonders if that is happening today in America. It has been said that hatred is anger oriented to the past and resentment is...
on Oct 18
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Thom Hartmann on a “Secular” or “Political” Antichrist - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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These days, I find myself bringing forward an ancient archetype from the Biblical apocalyptic tradition about evil, namely that of the antichrist. In my recent book on that topic, I go through some historical precedents, including of course the last book of the Christian Bible, the Book of...
on Oct 18
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Will America Replace aWeak Democracy with a Strong Theocracy? - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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Because that is what it will get if it elects Trump and Vance. As I laid out in the Saturday DM on Opus Dei, what has happened at SCOTUS will happen with the presidency if Trump and Vance win. The same gang that gave us six Supreme Court judges who want to exonerate all presidents of […]
on Oct 17
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Rupert Sheldrake on the Politics & Science of Resentment - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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I am asking these days how it is that Donald Trump, for all his obvious shortcomings, has so large a following among American voters and found myself turning to a book I wrote with British scientist Rupert Sheldrake several years ago. In our book, Natural Grace: dialogues on creation, darkness,...
on Oct 17
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Opus Dei, MAGA, the Dark Money Cult & 2024 Election - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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Many people, when they hear about the rise of Christian nationalism in America, think it is all about evangelicals who are Trump supporters. Nothing could be further from the truth. The fascist wing of the Roman Catholic Church, amply represented by Opus Dei (and others such as the Legion of...
on Oct 17
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Blessed Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024! - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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Indigenous Peoples Day in America is today. It was once known exclusively as Columbus Day in honor of the European who got lost and stumbled upon Turtle Island thinking he was in India. It is also Thanksgiving Day in Canada. I wish every day was Thanksgiving day around the world. I wish every...
on Oct 17
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The Return of Father Sky, a New Cosmology & the Sacred - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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Is the gift of a new cosmology and therefore a return of Father Sky the return of the sacred cosmos? Might a return of the Sacred be arriving just in time for our species to renew itself and gather its genius that can save the planet, unite nations, reconstruct authentic masculinity, and...
on Oct 10
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Surprise! A Second New Book—This One for Kids - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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I am surprised to see a new book of mine, The Return of Father Sky: A Cosmic Mystery for Kids of All Ages, being launched at this time, when we have just launched my book on the Antichrist and the 2024 election. Clearly, I had no control over the timing of either book, since timing […]
on Oct 8
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The Scream from Helene & the Denial of Denial - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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We are talking about Evil and the Sacred. How preserving our Sacred Earth so it remains hospitable to our and millions of other species, is grounded in a sense of the sacred. How sacred is Mother Earth? It is the task of healthy religion to awaken us to the sacred. As Thomas Aquinas put it, “the...
on Oct 8
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The Scream from Helene, continued - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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The disaster that hurricane Helene has left us is a wake-up call. Thanks go to all those first responders, neighbors, government workers and helpers who are reaching out to assist those most bereft in the wake of that storm. But we also must learn the lessons of what Mother Earth is trying to...
on Oct 2
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MAGA/Trump Book Finally Landing, and An Invitation - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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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. Today, Monday, is the day our shipment of my new book on […]
on Sep 30
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More Thoughts on Recovering a Sense of the Sacred - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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A few Daily Meditations ago, we meditated on Recovering a Sense of the Sacred and I invoked Thomas Berry’s rich thoughts about beginning with the awareness that the universe, creation, is “the primary sacred reality.” We came to this topic by way of posting the question that arises from my...
on Sep 27
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Recovering a Sense of the Sacred - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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The health and future of Mother Earth are in rapid decline due to Climate Change, which is in turn caused by human arrogance and indifference and greed. At the same time as it is becoming ever more clear humanity is bringing about such destruction, we are also being gifted with a new creation...
on Sep 25
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September 16, 2024: “Anti-Christ” as an Archetype Appropriate to our Apocalyptic TimesOver the course of the past nine years the media as it struggles to report on the phenomenon of trumpism often employs the world “unprecedented.” His lies, his crimes, his influence of the highest court of our...
on Sep 23
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Questions Posed about My New Book on Trump, MAGA, Antichrist - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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Some questions that arise regarding my new book on Trump & Antichrist follow. Why is the first chapter about Sigmund Freud? Freud underwent an amazing encounter with the same fresco that I did on visiting the Orvieto Cathedral in 1897. In fact, he was so taken by it that he returned two more...
on Sep 21
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Remembering My Mother and Brother Nat - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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Last week I shared stories of my oldest brother Tom who passed on and a little bit about my brother Nat who passed on four days later. I thank all those who sent prayers and condolences. It seems fitting here to tell some more about Nat but also about my mother who died at 89 […]
on Sep 20
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Hildegard of Bingen’s Feast Day 2024 - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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Today, the day I write this DM, is the Feast Day of Hildegard of Bingen and you are reading it the day following her feast day. Hildegard has so much to teach us in our time which is one reason I have written three books about her. Her music is original and outstanding. Her interest in science […]
on Sep 19
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A Healing Dream for a Time of Apocalypse Like Ours - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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Because we are talking about apocalypse and revelation at this time of Climate Change and of a critical election in America, I found myself picking up my book on The Coming of the Cosmic Christ. It was born of a powerful dream I had that culminated in the statement: “Your mother is dying.” My...
on Sep 17
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PLEASE NOTE:With days ticking down to 11/5, Matthew Fox’s urgent new book turns the Anti-Christ archetype into a searing device for understanding the deeper stakes in the 2024 election.• For immediate access to Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election, order...
on Sep 16
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Some Testimonies To Tom Fox & His Vocation as an Educator - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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First, I want to thank those many readers who sent their prayers and condolences about the death of my brother, Tom Fox, whose book, published shortly before his death, I am sharing in excerpts this week. Your support means a lot to me. He lived a full and productive life as is clear from the...
on Sep 13
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The “Wow” Factor, Science, Learning & Spirituality a la Tom Fox - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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What I call the Via Positiva and Heschel calls awe, educator Tom Fox calls the “wow.” In addition to the ‘wow’ of our universe and its ways of operating, their writings [scientists like Wilzek] frequently express the ‘wow’ of how our minds can imagine and work together to share that...
on Sep 12
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My and My Brother’s Story in Education - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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Matthew’s new book exists currently in audio (narrated by him) and in e-book format. We apologize to all those who have purchased an advance copy of the paperback book which we thought would be out by now. Apparently the colored pictures have contributed to a delay. We do expect its appearance...
on Sep 11