Balancing the Good News and the Hard News
Matthew Fox
April 9, 2021
Global news that arrives online in minutes from all around the world these days can easily weigh us down. Today it is the sad news
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Awakening by Way of the Via Negativa
Matthew Fox
April 8, 2021
It is not only the Via Positiva—Resurrection, Easter, Springtime, and events of liberation such as Passover — that awakens us and that constitutes our mystical
Aquinas on Resurrecting in this Lifetime, continued
Matthew Fox
April 7, 2021
I speak in my book, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth, of the need to fall in love at least three times
Aquinas on Resurrecting in this Lifetime
Matthew Fox
April 6, 2021
We meditated yesterday on the latest Biblical scholarship about Resurrection as laid out by Bruce Chilton and, more briefly, John Dominic Crossan. I posited that
Easter Week and Resurrections Everywhere
Matthew Fox
April 5, 2021
The deep teachings from Bruce Chilton that he shares in his significant study, Resurrection Logic: How Jesus’ First Followers Believed God Raised Him from the
Easter, 2021
Matthew Fox
April 4, 2021
Much in the Resurrection story is set in the context of cosmology. Those persons who encountered Jesus after he died did not claim to have
Holy Saturday and the Shamanic Descent of Jesus
Matthew Fox
April 3, 2021
How do we find meaning in suffering? How do we respond to it without projecting more suffering onto others? How do we, in Leonard Cohen’s
Crucifixion and the Cosmic Christ
Matthew Fox
April 2, 2021
Bad theology can readily over-psychologize the Crucifixion. In the Gospels, the Good Friday event is placed in a cosmic context. Scholarship now tells us that
Eckhart on Driving Merchants from our Souls and Temples
Matthew Fox
April 1, 2021
Part of the Holy Week story is the revolutionary act attributed to Jesus of turning over tables of the sellers in the Temple. New Testament
Soul Wounds, continued
Matthew Fox
March 31, 2021
We considered in yesterday’s DM the great price that Native peoples have paid for their colonization. They call it a soul wound. The healing begins
