Tag: Meditations
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Etty Hillesum and Peace-Making – Every day Meditations with Matthew Fox
[ad_1] Etty Hillesum wrote her diaries in Nazi-occupied Netherlands. In 1941 she ended up within the transit camp of Westerbork as a result of she volunteered to accompany the primary group of Jews rounded up by the Germans. She was a counsellor and a pal to many within the camp. Solely just lately the witness…
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Making Evil Acutely aware – Every day Meditations with Matthew Fox
[ad_1] Patriarchy as a social system unfold throughout human cultures is at the least 4,000 years previous. Some students date it again even additional. This info alone exhibits the depth of the difficulty and the enormity of the issue that radical feminism has revealed and has been tackling for many years. However, certainly, what are…
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The Male Toddler Archetype – Day by day Meditations with Matthew Fox
[ad_1] My mind is buzzing with concepts about what it means proper now to be a person. Little question, the buzzing is as a result of wealth of enter that Matthew has given us in his current DMs on this matter, but in addition by the actual fact that coping with masculinities means to get…
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The Energy of Phrases – Day by day Meditations with Matthew Fox
[ad_1] Though we have to look the reality straight in her eyes, which right this moment means dealing with evil, and though constructing shelters product of nice lies received’t serve any good goal, it stays true that phrases create actuality. The “Cosmic Rose,” containing the Hebrew names of God (Tetragrammaton) and Jesus (Pentagrammaton) invoked in…
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Stability and Empathy – Day by day Meditations with Matthew Fox
[ad_1] Two days in the past we learn what Matthew’s niece wrote to him: “To me, liberty and justice for all has to imply that individuals get to dwell with dignity, hope, and with some sort of stability.” Diagram of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Wants, by Hamish.croker on Wikimedia Commons This can be a good abstract…
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Chaos, Cruelty, and Training – Day by day Meditations with Matthew Fox
[ad_1] On the time of my scripting this DM we don’t know if the “Large Immoral Invoice” — as Matthew referred to as it — acquired a passing vote within the Senate of america. In any case, it’s immoral for a lot of causes, together with the try to sneak in provisions that will shelter…
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Thank You, Walter Brueggemann! – Every day Meditations with Matthew Fox
[ad_1] Yesterday I realized of the loss of life of theologian Walter Brueggemann on the age of 92. Like many theologians of my era and past, I used to be deeply influenced by him—his work is central to mine in creation spirituality. In reality, I simply counted 11 occasions that I cited him in my…
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The American Chasm – Every day Meditations with Matthew Fox
[ad_1] I’ve usually encountered good folks in America who battle for justice and are struggling, greater than ever, from the chasm present right this moment between them and people who help the present POTUS. Such struggling is actual and should be revered. Greater than that, I imagine it should be investigated. It’s, in spite of…
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Overcoming Dualism – Each day Meditations with Matthew Fox
[ad_1] One of the vital vital issues that I discovered from Matthew Fox is that non secular progress, that’s, actual human progress, is realized via the overcoming of dualisms. I might dare to say that it may be (individually) measured thus, that means that one can look again over one’s life and observe which dualisms…
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Matthew’s Return – Each day Meditations with Matthew Fox
[ad_1] I’m again. Deep due to our DM group together with: Phila Hoopes, Cynthia Greb, Rosanna Tufts, Dennis Edwards and Ellen Kennedy for maintaining issues going splendidly in my five-week absence. It was a bit difficult coordinating with very completely different time zones (Italy vs East Coast) and the remaining, however they assured me issues ran easily. Mirabai…