March 3, 2025: Anti-Christ Strikes Once more: Putin, Trump, Vance vs. Zelenskyy
In mild of what’s happening within the present regime in Washington, use of the phrase anti-christ feels extra applicable than ever. The label was additional concretized after we witnessed the spectacle within the Oval Workplace because the president and vice-president verbally attacked a person extra courageous than both of them might ever hope to be. We’re talking, in fact, of Zelenskyy. Trump tried to vary the narrative, insisting that it was Ukraine which began the conflict and never Putin. Clearly, our traitorous president continues to be beneath Putin’s thumb. We’re reminded of the knowledge spoken by Thomas Aquinas, about how tyrants desire the corporate of dangerous folks over good folks. (For instance, Putin as an alternative of Zelenskyy.)
March 4, 2025: Aquinas on Oligarchy, Democracy & American Politics At this time
In mild of the despicable bullying of Zelenskyy within the Oval Workplace on Friday, Aquinas’s phrases about tyranny appear particularly prescient. The disregard of the widespread good is bigger beneath an oligarchy than beneath a democracy. However worst of all is a tyranny the place the benefit of 1 man is sought.…A tyrant is constrained to destroy good folks’s confidence in each other, lest they collect collectively to throw off his yoke. Due to this fact, he sows discord amongst them….Safety is banished and every little thing is unsure when individuals are reduce off from regulation and depend upon the need, I might even say the greed, of one other.…(Avarice) provides rise to restlessness by hindering one with extreme nervousness and care, for ‘an avaricious man shall not be happy with cash.’ (Ecclesiastes 5:9)
March 5, 2025: Lech Wałęsa Writes Trump concerning the “Horror” of His Assault on Zelenskyy
Lech Wałęsa, Nobel Peace Prize winner, first democratically elected president of Poland, despatched a scathing letter to the President of the USA. He mentioned: We watched the report of your dialog with the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenski with worry and distaste.… Walesa mentioned that anticipating gratitude for materials assist given is insulting. As a substitute, gratitude is because of the heroic Ukrainian troopers who shed their blood in protection of the values of the free world. They’ve been dying on the frontline for greater than 11 years…(towards) Putin’s Russia.…We bear in mind President Reagan who with out hesitation known as the USSR the “Empire of Evil” and gave it a decisive struggle.…Human life is priceless, its worth can’t be measured with cash. Gratitude is because of those that make the sacrifice of blood and freedom. It’s apparent for us, the folks of “Solidarity,” former political prisoners of the communist regime serving Soviet Russia.
March 6, 2025: A Thank You to Rev. Dorsey Blake, Service of the Legacy of Howard Thurman
Matthew’s pal and colleague, the Reverend Dorsey Blake, who was vice chairman of the College of Creation Spirituality from its starting to its closing, died this week. He was pastor at Howard Thurman’s Church of the Fellowship of All Peoples in San Francisco for 31 years. That church was the primary consciously interfaith and interracial church in the USA. Matthew says that he owes Dorsey so much, for he was the primary to introduce Matthew to Howard Thurman. At UCS, Dorsey taught a category every year on “King, Gandhi, and Thurman” and in addition a category on “City Spirituality.” Dorsey was a champion of justice and represented his group with grace and righteous anger.
March 7, 2025: Lent Reconsidered: Stardust vs Ashes, Fasting From Billionaires
Right now in our nation and world, maybe Lent requires us to go deeper than giving up chocolate. Sister Emily TeKolste is the Grassroots Mobilization Organizer for Community Foyer for Catholic Social Justice, a social justice motion headed by Catholic Sisters (suppose: “Nuns on the Bus”). Sister Emily asks the query: “Have you ever considered giving up billionaires for Lent? And never only for Lent however for after Lent, too?” Sister Emily sees billionaires not solely as a coverage failure, however an ethical failure. She says: We’re dedicated to coming collectively to elect leaders who will make the ultra-wealthy pay their justifiable share of taxes in order that we are able to dwell in a world that appears extra just like the Kingdom of God: the place everybody has clear water to drink, wholesome meals to eat, a protected place to dwell, and time to spend with our family members.
March 8, 2025: Additional Fasts For Lent, 2025
On this Lenten season, we’d be sensible to take heed to the phrases of the prophet Isaiah. Just isn’t this the quick that I select: to free the bonds of injustice, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to interrupt each yoke? (Isaiah 58:6) What if we additionally select to quick from fascism and Christofascism? A corporation known as Devoted America is asking on Individuals to quick from injustice and billionaires and companies which might be stoking hate, and to take a Lenten boycott pledge that exhibits solidarity with others. They invite us to signal a pledge to boycott mega-stores and chains which might be owned by multibillionaires. As a substitute, we’re inspired to construct relationships with native companies that want and deserve our assist. To signal the pledge, click on HERE.*
*SIGN THE PLEDGE: Boycott pro-Trump companies for Lent this yr. Devoted America.
Banner picture: Protest in small-town America on Worldwide Ladies’s Day, March 8, 2025. Picture by Cynthia Greb. Used with permission.
Advisable 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 worry. Nonetheless, given at present’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, creator of Anatomy of the Spirit and Conversations with the Divine.
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Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Reworking Evil in Soul and Society
Visionary theologian and best-selling creator Matthew Fox affords a brand new theology of evil that basically adjustments the standard notion of excellent and evil and factors the way in which to a extra enlightened remedy 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 anybody single science. A breath-taking evaluation.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, creator of Quantum Theology: Non secular Implications of the New Physics
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 programs–financial, political, academic, and non secular–discovering a spirituality that not solely helps us to get alongside, but additionally 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 gives a framework that’s intentionally interfaith and speaks to our profound craving for a life with religious function and for a greater world.
“Occupy Spirituality is a strong, inspiring, and very important name to embodied consciousness and enlightened actions.”
~~ Julia Butterfly Hill, environmental activist and creator of The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Lady, and the Battle to Save the Redwoods
A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Consciousness with Social Justice
In A Spirituality Named Compassion, Matthew Fox delivers a profound exploration of the that means and apply of compassion. Establishing a spirituality for the long run that guarantees private, social, and world therapeutic, Fox marries mysticism with social justice, main the way in which towards a gentler and extra ecological spirituality and an acceptance of our interdependence which is the substratum of all compassionate exercise.
“Properly value our deepest consideration…Places compassion into its correct focus after centuries of neglect.” –The Catholic Register
