March 10, 2025: Senator Blows Whistle on Putin-Like Corruption in First Weeks of New Administration
Senator Chris Murphy, in a current speech on the Senate ground, names a number of blatant examples of corruption dedicated by Trump in his first six weeks. He compares it to what has grow to be normalized in Russia underneath Putin. Listed here are just a few of the extra egregious examples: 1) Any CEO can meet with Trump for $5 million. 2) The IRS is being reduce by 7000 employees–particularly together with those that audit millionaires, billionaires, and companies. 3) $400 million was authorized to purchase armored Teslas, which is after all Musk’s firm. And Musk, after all, is the person who purchased the election and now owns Trump. 4) Fossil gas CEOs who backed Trump’s marketing campaign are rewarded, whereas clear vitality firms are attacked. Senator Murphy stated, “Corruption has occurred earlier than—however by no means this overtly or this continuously.”
March 11, 2025: Archetypes of the “Trickster” & the “Antichrist” on this Historic Second
Tonight is the second spherical of our gathering referred to as “From Darkness to Daybreak” consisting of 4 conversations with host Cameron Trimble, Matthew, and 4 notable non secular academics and activists. In our first dialog, Mirabai Starr and Matthew interacted on the subject of “The Darkish Evening and the Name to Braveness.” Response to the dialog and dialogue was profound. In tonight’s Dialog with Andrew Harvey, we will likely be partaking on the subject of “The Trickster Unveiled – Archetypes within the Age of MAGA.” Subsequent week, Bishop Yvette Flunder will converse on how religion communities can rise with braveness and lead transformative motion in these difficult occasions. Within the fourth week, Father Adam Bucko and Matthew will discover how we flip reflection into significant motion.
March 12, 2025: The Widespread Good, not Greed, because the Root of Authorities
Within the midst of the craziness occurring in Washington, let’s flip our discuss to the widespread good. In his commentary on Aristotle’s Ethics, Aquinas says: The widespread good of the state can not flourish except residents are virtuous—at the very least these whose enterprise it’s to control. Aquinas additionally stated: The widespread good of many is extra godlike than the great of a person. He additionally teaches: The sum whole of the Christian faith consists of compassion. He additionally reminds us of the next: 1 John 3:18: ‘Allow us to not love in phrase, nor in speech, however in deed and in reality.’
March 13, 2025: Aquinas on Justice, the Cosmos, the Widespread Good & the Wealthy
Aquinas teaches that each one of nature follows a love of the entire. Every a part of creation naturally loves the widespread good of the entire greater than its personal explicit good.…Each creature exists for the perfection of the complete universe. Aquinas warns that the tremendous rich have to be checked if they don’t put it to the widespread good. In his Commentary on Aristotle’s Ethics, he warns that when one who has an excessive amount of exceeds the imply…we’ll know by this imply what we must take from those that have extra and provides to those that have much less. Exceeding the imply “is in opposition to divine justice,” for justice and the widespread good go collectively. How in opposition to the widespread good are all of the mass firings being perpetrated by the multi-billionaire within the White Home?
March 14, 2025: MAGA vs. the Widespread Good: An Amazingly Synchronistic Second
Michael Ian Black is an actor and author who watched a “Viral ‘Debate’ between liberal commentator Sam Seder and twenty younger MAGA conservatives.* His blood stress so rose watching it, that he needed to flip it off. He stated it was as a result of he holds a conservative bias and imaginative and prescient of America which nonetheless believes that consultant democracy stays the most effective type of authorities but devised. The “notion, the promise of a typical good, is the elemental divide between my imaginative and prescient and that of the present administration.” Black stated that when fact-checking the younger MAGA of us, he discovered that their claims “have been nearly all incorrect” however by no means thoughts as a result of “the MAGA worldview is just not knowledgeable by information however by emotions.” Black believed we have been able to “figuring out that which binds us, in any other case generally known as the widespread good.” MAGA “rejects this” and in doing so, “rejects America.”
March 15, 2025: “Christian Nationalism”—and Its Reverse: Be part of Me Saturday Morning
In yesterday’s DM, Matthew shared the very disturbing information about younger MAGA followers who declared that Christian nationalism was “a great various” to American democracy. Really, “Christian nationalism” is just not in any method “Christian.” Jesus is just not about promoting hatred. Just lately Matthew found a chat by Rabbi Abraham Heschel given to a gathering of 2000 Roman Catholics at a nationwide liturgy convention held in Milwaukee in 1969.** In his discuss, he introduced up the Auschwitz dying camps. He stated: It’s with…anguish that I recall that it was potential for a Roman Catholic church adjoining the extermination camp in Auschwitz to supply communion to the officers of the camp, to individuals who day after day drove 1000’s of individuals to be killed within the gas-chambers. Our understanding of Jesus has usually been distorted by overemphasizing dogma and underemphasizing expertise. Mysticism is the experiential facet of wholesome faith that results in a Sure for existence and love and fact and justice.
* Michael Ian Black, “The Viral ‘Debate’ Video That Proves Most MAGA Voters Are a Misplaced Trigger.” The Each day Beast, March 12, 2025.
**Abraham Joshua Heschel, “On Prayer,” The Open Siddur Venture, 1969.
Banner picture: “If you happen to’re not outraged, you’re not paying consideration.” Indicators at a protest in small city Pennsylvania, on Worldwide Girls’s Day, 2025. Picture by Cynthia Greb. Used with permission
Beneficial Studying
Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election
Matthew Fox tells us that he had at all times shied away from utilizing the time period “Anti-Christ” as a result of it was so usually used to unfold management and concern. Nevertheless, given immediately’s rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables on this e-book using the archetype for the reason for justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity.
From the Foreword: If there was ever a time, a second, for inspecting the archetype of the Antichrist, it’s now…Learn this e-book with an open thoughts. Good and evil are actual forces in our world. ~~ Caroline Myss, writer of Anatomy of the Spirit and Conversations with the Divine.
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Christian Mystics: 365 Readings & Meditations
As Matthew Fox notes, when an getting old Albert Einstein was requested if he had any regrets, he replied, “I want I had learn extra of the mystics earlier in my life.” The 365 writings in Christian Mystics characterize a wide-ranging sampling of those readings for modern-day seekers of all faiths — or no religion. The visionaries quoted vary from Julian of Norwich to Martin Luther King, Jr., from Thomas Merton to Dorothee Soelle and Thomas Berry.
“Our world is in disaster, and we want highway maps that may floor us in knowledge, encourage us to motion, and assist us collect our abilities in service of compassion and justice. This revolutionary e-book does simply that. Matthew Fox takes a few of the most profound non secular teachings of the West and interprets them into sensible every day mediations. Research and follow these teachings. Take what’s on this e-book and train it to the youth as a result of the brand new technology can not afford to undergo the spirit and moral illiteracy of the previous.” — Adam Bucko, non secular activist and co-founder of the Reciprocity Basis for Homeless Youth.
Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Imaginative and prescient for a New Technology
Authors Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox encourage us to make use of our abilities in service of compassion and justice and to maneuver past our damaged methods–financial, political, instructional, and non secular–discovering a spirituality that not solely helps us to get alongside, but in addition encourages us to reevaluate our traditions, reworking them and within the course of constructing a extra sacred and simply world. Incorporating the phrases of younger activist leaders culled from interviews and surveys, the e-book offers a framework that’s intentionally interfaith and speaks to our profound craving for a life with non secular function and for a greater world.
“Occupy Spirituality is a robust, inspiring, and important name to embodied consciousness and enlightened actions.”
~~ Julia Butterfly Hill, environmental activist and writer of The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Lady, and the Battle to Save the Redwoods
