Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox

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06/06/2026

In his major work The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, Matthew Fox explains the six principles that he has adopted for planning and leading rituals: In addition to these basic principles, Matthew acknowledges the lessons he has learned from worshiping with native people. Essentially, he tells us that he...

06/06/2026

During my recent retreat in Sardinia (see yesterday’s DM), I experienced again the tremendous power of ritual action. A Gospel verse comes to mind: “Endeavor to walk through the narrow gate, because large is the path leading to perdition and narrow is the one leading to life” (Matthew 7:13). A...

06/06/2026

The consciousness of mysticism is on the rise. Mysticism is about our experiential union with the Divine. The rediscovery in the West of the role that the wisdom tradition played in the life of the historical Jesus, and the rediscovery of the Creation Spirituality tradition and its great Earth-based...

06/03/2026

Yesterday we meditated on Work and Spirituality. I was inspired to do so by several recent experiences including Pope Leo’s encyclical, the interaction with attendees of the Sardinia retreat, and also an email that arrived from a student in our Spirituality and Work Doctor of Ministry program at U...

06/02/2026

Pope Leo’s ambitious encyclical on “Magnificent Humanity” discusses work and its importance. I, of course, took up the same topic in my book, The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood for Our Time, where I applied the four paths of creation spirituality to our work worlds and employe...

06/02/2026

In two previous DMs (here and here), we discussed important elements of Pope Leo’s encyclical on “Magnificent Humanity.” In addressing AI, he talks about “disarming” it, meaning resisting “ever more powerful algorithms and larger datasets, driven by the desire to secure geopolitical or c...

05/30/2026

Jungian analyst and scholar of religion Antonio Dorella has offered such a convincing parallel between the four paths of Creation Spirituality and the four psychological functions of C.G. Jung that I took it as the basis of my own book on Matthew Fox and Jung. It is also possible to pair the paths a...

05/29/2026

To me, doing spiritual counseling, a.k.a. spiritual direction, represents a great spiritual adventure. Having immersed myself for many years in Creation Spirituality and, before that, in the kind of post-Vatican II and liberation theologies that are the humus itself of contemporary Creation Spiritua...

05/27/2026

Not just ours, but many other eras in human history were beset by cruelty in politics, both international and domestic. Some people in that context — like myself today — chose to live a relatively secluded life, surrounded by their books and thoughts, practicing a rota of prayers and meditation ...

05/27/2026

I write this on Monday morning, which is the day after the Feast of Pentecost for Christians and happens to be also the day of the release of Pope Leo’s much-awaited encyclical on AI. The document boasts a very uplifting title, Magnifica humanitas, Magnificent Humanity. (It almost sounds like .....

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