Statement In Support of Grand Elder Raymond Robinson
and Idle No More
Grand Elder Raymond Robinson of the Cross Lake Nation in Manitoba, Canada, is now in his fourth day of hunger- and thirst-strike protesting the Harper administration’s massive removal of Canadian environmental protections and Indigenous treaty rights, opening up the transcontinental boreal forest to unlimited Tar Sands devastation. Matthew Fox responds to the protest: I join…
Matthew Fox Endorses “Alfredo’s Fire”
| March 19, 2013 | Uncategorized |
(from the Alfredo’s Fire website) In 1998 a gay Italian writer shocked the world by setting himself on fire in St. Peter’s Square to protest the Vatican’s ban on homosexuaity. Years later, his gesture faded into obscurity. What is the flame he ignited and how deep are its shadows? By unraveling this tragic story, ALFREDO’S…
Red Flags Round Pope Francis
| March 17, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Like everyone else on earth, I wish the new Pope well and I hope he truly emulates some of Francis of Assisi’s priorities: Defending Mother Earth who is in so much peril; living simply (how one does that in a palace like the Vatican, surrounded by an obsequious court, is another question); Speaking out on…
How the Papal Conclave Could Renew Religion: My Two Votes for Pope
| March 12, 2013 | The Pope's War |
I was asked yesterday on the “Young Turks” TV show how the Vatican could recover its sense of moral and spiritual leadership. First, I acknowledge the depths of the question–the Vatican over the past 42 years has lost any inkling of moral and spiritual respect. I have written in my last post of the abuses…
A Bold Experiment in the Emerging Gift Economy
| February 4, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Dear Friends of Creation Spirituality: Some VERY exciting news! As announced earlier Andrew Harvey and myself are teaming up to try to resurrect Christianity in a series of weekend seminars/initiations called the Christ Path. This series is now offered at an unprecedented gift economy price of $50 registration per workshop, whether offered onsite or online! Our…
Beyond Gun Control: Other Issues Raised by the Unspeakable Events at Newtown
Like everyone else, the president included, the Unspeakable, that is to say, evil acts of murdering twenty children and six of their defenders has left me speechless. Evil does that. Awe does that. As poet Adrianne Rich put it, “Language cannot do everything–chalk it on the walls where the dead poets lie in their mausoleums.”…
Holiday 2012 News from Matthew Fox & FSC
December 8, 2012 Dear Friends of Creation Spirituality, Happy and Blessed Holidays to you all! I would like to take this time to briefly bring you up to date on some goings-on in Creation Spirituality land as some exciting prospects are blooming. First, as regards my own writing, I was pleased that my book on…
A Response from a Woman in Germany to “The Pope’s War.”
This very moving response to my book holds, I believe, many lessons for others about what bad religion does to the soul. With the poet’s kind permission I reprint it here because I believe it also holds truths that can heal many others. Feel free to respond with comments of your own to this moving…
Rupert Sheldrake’s The Science Delusion:
The Most Important Book of the Decade?
Rupert Sheldrake’s most recent book, The Science Delusion in England and Science Set Free in the United States, may well prove to be the most important book of the decade, surely one of the most important books. Why? Because everyone knows that Science is the “good housekeeping” approval for most any intellectual effort in the…
What Would Hildegard Do?
Some Thoughts on the Latest Attack from the Vatican, This on American Sisters My first response on being invited to write an article on the Silencing of Sisters in the Roman Catholic Church was: “Why? They are fully capable of defending themselves.” Yet I also know, from my own personal experience in my years of…
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