February 3, 2025: Deepening Our Non secular Warriorhood with John of the Cross & Others
A reader requested, “How can we maintain ourselves in such making an attempt occasions?” As we wrestle with our name as mystics, prophets and non secular warriors, Matthew suggests the 4 Paths as a non secular device. He cites St. John of the Cross as a robust instance of 1 who confronted terribly troublesome occasions within the face of each day beatings and abuse inside a Carmelite jail and who used his artistic presents to persevere. His poem on the Darkish Evening reveals that difficult time. He speaks of the ability of silence and emptying, the Through Negativa, and the therapeutic energy of artwork because the Through Creativa and Transformativa. His poem, The Canticle, is a shining instance of the Through Positiva.
February 4, 2025: The 4 Paths: Apply for the Non secular Warrior in Us All
As fascist authoritarianism and oligarchy invades our nation from inside, it’s time for our non secular warrior to face up and be counted. Matthew says in Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ that we should be like camels that fill their hump with water so as to stroll via a dry and parched desert. This implies a non secular warrior should be ever extra in love with life, ever extra dedicated to biophilia, ever extra grateful for all times and breath and one’s time on Earth. Consuming all that magnificence in is what the Through Positiva is all about. And this may give us vitality to stroll via the darkish valleys and parched deserts.
February 5, 2025: If the Anti-Christ Have been President, He May Be Considering This….
I’ll destroy democracy and exchange it with an Autocracy or Oligarchy of billionaires who will likely be beholden to me. I’ll expel all authorities employees who don’t kneel and adore me. This consists of all FBI personnel who investigated the 1600 individuals who, on my orders charged the nation’s capitol in a violent vogue on January 6 to disrupt the peaceable switch of energy. I’ll fireplace all DOJ legal professionals who investigated the identical occasion. I’ll appoint a head of FBI who will go after my enemies. I’ll appoint a head of DOJ who goes after my enemies. I’ll require no-conscience obedience from all congressmen and girls in my get together and they’ll give up to my each declaration. I’ll kill as many environmental legal guidelines as I probably can—to hell with Local weather Change and the way forward for the planet. I’ll expel all Palestinians from Gaza and construct a resort there. I’ll expel hundreds of thousands of immigrants and their households and lock them up in Guantanamo Bay jail.
February 6, 2025: Actions Persons are Taking to Fight In the present day’s Purge, Coup & Democracide
One high-quality group that has arisen to take motion throughout this time is Indivisible. It bears all of the marks of a neighborhood of non secular warriors, akin to we’ve got been meditating on these days. Right here is one motion you possibly can take: If you’re involved with a president giving an unelected particular person, Elon Musk, entry to your private data as maintained by the Treasury Division, The Privateness Act of 1974 states: No company shall disclose any file which is contained in a system of data by any technique of communication to any particular person, or to a different company, besides pursuant to a written request by, or with the prior written consent of the person to whom the file pertains……. Ship this, along with your signature to privateness@treasury.gov.
February 7, 2025: The Coup & You & US: Time For Non secular Warriorhood
It is a time for non secular warriorhood, of this there isn’t a doubt. Listed below are some headlines from a involved and considerate press, the very press that the present regime, beneath the aegis of Elon Musk and his co-president, is making an attempt to destroy. Relating to Trump’s promise to “take over” Gaza and “personal” it, with Netanyahu smiling at his aspect, David Remnick says: Such a coverage represents ethnic cleaning. Morality is of no curiosity the place there’s a actual property deal to be made.* Michael Moore: The precise Coup in DC is underway. Moore says that we are able to cease him via the courts, in Congress, mass actions of civil disobedience, calling on police to affix with us “to dam the one particular person the Supreme Courtroom has declared can break the legislation.”** From Timothy Snyder, writer of On Tyranny: “In fact it’s a coup: Miss the apparent, lose your republic.”***
February 8, 2025: Unhealthy Faith’s Function within the Present Coup
Russell Vought, the newly voted-in Director of the OMB, is a Christian nationalist and a primary architect of Undertaking 2025. However Vought’s Christianity is clearly at odds with a wholesome Christianity that teaches truth-telling, love, justice and compassion.
Matthew says that Undertaking 2025 is stuffed with antichrist values. Apparently, the day Vought was authorised by the Republican senate this week, President Trump appeared on the Nationwide Prayer Breakfast and introduced that he can be signing a brand new government order to nominate AG Pam Bondi to go a process power to “eradicate anti-Christian bias” within the authorities, and would create a brand new “presidential fee on spiritual liberty” headed by televangelist Paula White. A lot for the separation of Church and State. And who determines what’s “Christian” and what’s “anti-Christ Christian”?
* David Remnick, “The Insanity of Donald Trump,” The New Yorker, February 5, 2025.
** Michael Moore, “The Coup D’Etat has Begun.”
*** Timothy Snyder, “In fact it’s a coup: Miss the apparent, lose your republic.” Substack
Banner picture: Time for non secular warriors to stand up and slay the beast. “David and Goliath.” Portray attributed to Charles Errard the Youthful. Wikimedia Commons.
Really helpful Studying
Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election
Matthew Fox tells us that he had all the time 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 at this time’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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Unique Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality
Matthew Fox lays out an entire new course for Christianity—a course that’s in truth very historic and really grounded in Jewish pondering (the truth that Jesus was a Jew is usually uncared for by Christian theology): the 4 Paths of Creation Spirituality, the Vias Positiva, Negativa, Creativa and Transformativa in an prolonged and deeply developed approach.
“Unique Blessing makes out there to the Christian world and to the human neighborhood a radical treatment for all darkish and derogatory views of the pure world wherever these might have originated.” –Thomas Berry, writer, The Dream of the Earth; The Nice Work; co-author, The Universe Story
Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Reworking Evil in Soul and Society
Visionary theologian and best-selling writer Matthew Fox affords a brand new theology of evil that essentially modifications the normal notion of excellent and evil and factors the way in which to a extra enlightened therapy of ourselves, each other, and all of nature. In evaluating the Japanese custom of the 7 chakras to the Western custom of the 7 capital sins, Fox permits us to suppose creatively about our capability for private and institutional evil and what we are able to do about them.
“A scholarly masterpiece embodying a greater imaginative and prescient and depth of notion far past the grasp of anyone single science. A breath-taking evaluation.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, writer of Quantum Theology: Non secular Implications of the New Physics
Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Imaginative and prescient for a New Era
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 programs–financial, political, instructional, and spiritual–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 supplies 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 Girl, and the Battle to Save the Redwoods
