Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox

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06/19/2026

Today is Juneteenth National Independence Day, a federal holiday so declared on June 19, 2021 under the Biden administration. Other titles for the day include “Jubilee Day”; “Emancipation Day”; “Freedom Day”; “Black Independence Day.” Each title sheds light on its meaning.  Juneteen...

06/18/2026

The 85th anniversary of the death of Evelyn Underhill passed this week without much fanfare, which she would have disliked anyway. “Quiet,” in fact, might be the best single word to summarize her message to the world, although the word “less” is also a strong contender. She insisted in parti...

06/17/2026

In Monday’s DM video, I shared some highlights from Robert Reich’s excellent article on “The Horrifying Truth About Trump’s Cage Match.” His thoughtful article talks of a “deeply troubling gladiator fight” whose message relayed of America is not about how “all are created equal” bu...

06/16/2026

In yesterday’s DM and video, we considered the very dubious historic watershed of the first trillionaire in human history. We also called for a re-do of the church’s definition of itself as the “mystical body of Christ” to include the “mystical/prophetic body of Christ” because all of us...

06/16/2026

For some time, the Christian Church has talked about itself as “the mystical body of Christ.” That is a rich archetype to explore and to play out. But I think it’s time to update its self-definition and propose that its fuller vocation is to be a mystical/prophetic body of Christ. In my first ...

06/16/2026

The Mass in its essence is a celebration of life. It is feast, thanksgiving, memorial, communion, compassion, cosmic joy. Its history goes back to the actions of Jesus — who had banquets with people of ill repute and was a guest at wedding parties — as well as to the earliest communities who rem...

06/13/2026

On a wall in my bedroom, there is a painting about four feet by five feet by my good friend, former co-worker, and faculty member, M.C. Richards. (See banner picture above.) M.C. is best known for her iconic book, Centering: In Pottery, Poetry and the Person, a book I discovered at the very time I...

06/11/2026

Giving ritual such a place of honor as both Matthew Fox and the present writer have done in our last few DMs raises a number of questions. One of the most pressing of them, for me, regards my own definition of myself as a Christian. Everything that I said and believe about ritual and its […]

06/11/2026

Among the comments that we received about the recent series of DMs on ritual, two critiques caught my attention in particular: (1) Ritual for ritual’s sake is meaningless, and (2) What matters is social action, not ritual action. These are the two most classical modern criticisms of ritual. They m...

06/11/2026

We ended Saturday’s DM with one of my favorite quotes from Teilhard de Chardin. It deserves our prolonged—and frequent— meditation: The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as humanity found itself facing the frost, the sea, and the stars. And since then, we find evidence of it in all our ...

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