Monthly Archives: February 2011
Italian Newspaper Reviews Original Blessing
The following interview appeared in the Italian Newspaper, Corriere della Sera , on Feb 17, 2011, the day that Matthew Fox’s Original Blessing appeared in Italy in Italian. It begins with a brief paragraph. The Italian interview was shortened so here, for English-speaking readers, is the fuller interview (the bracket signs are for parts left…
Global Warming, Global Warning: Time to put Original Blessing Before Original Sin
Global Warming, Global Warning: Time to put Original Blessing Before Original Sin Spring 2009 A time of global warming is a time of global warning. It is time for humans to wake up and to grow up. And our religions and governments along with us. The paradigm shift from Original Sin to Original Blessing offers…
The Return of the Black Madonna: A Sign of Our Times or How the Black Madonna Is Shaking Us Up for the Twenty-First Century
The Return of the Black Madonna: A Sign of Our Times or How the Black Madonna Is Shaking Us Up for the Twenty-First Century Rev. Matthew Fox, Ph.D © 2006 Matthew Fox Every archetype has its seasons. They come and go according to the deepest, often unconscious, needs of the psyche both personal and collective.…
Original Blessing Twenty Five Years Later
Original Blessing Twenty Five Year Later Easter 2008 Matthew Fox I am grateful to Matt Henry for his ambition and imagination in drawing together so many writers and thinkers for a celebration of twenty-five years of Original Blessing. Because this project has been undertaken under a strict deadline, I have not read any of the…
BP vs. Original Blessing
BP vs. Original Blessing June 2010 Every pelican we see in the Gulf coated with oil is an Original Blessing. Every turtle we see drenched in gook is an Original Blessing. All the shrimp beds and oyster hatcheries being poisoned by BP tar is an Original Blessing. The sea itself, home to so many marvelous…
Mel Gibson’s Passion and Fascism’s Piety of Pain
Many years ago, after finishing doctoral studies in Paris, I spent a semester at the University of Munster in Germany. While there I lived in a Dominican convent which housed about six other Dominicans, one of whom was old and very strange and never appeared during the day time at meals or for any other…
The Good News from Egypt
The Good News from Egypt Isn’t the news on Egypt great? I am sure I was not the only observer with tears in his or her eyes all day yesterday hearing and watching the good news of the Egyptian uprising. How moving it is to see the young being brave and standing up for their…
Retirement or Refirement?
Retirement or Refirement? Matthew Fox December 2005 This month I reached my sixty fifth birthday. I made the requisite pilgrimage to the Social Security Office in downtown Oakland, California where I have been living for the last twenty-two years to sign up for medicare and for a social security check. So much done. But what…
On the Future of Religion
On the Future of Religion Matthew Fox When one looks at the wars and rumors of wars abounding around the world—and the number that are religion-based or religion-fed—one cannot be optimistic about religion as we know it or the future of religion as we know it. I think the words of John the Baptist applied…
Leadership as a Spiritual Practice
Leadership as a Spiritual Practice Matthew Fox The failures of leadership are everywhere to be seen in the globe today. Whether one speaks of the failure of Wall Street tycoons or its awol government regulators, or the failure of BP and its awol government regulators, or the failure of Catholic hierarchy (including the Vatican) in…
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