This can be a abstract of the earlier week’s every day meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF) and a few are written by his colleague, Gianluigi Gugliermetto. (GG) You possibly can click on on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Additionally, do not forget that every Monday DM continues to incorporate a video educating by Matthew Fox. Thanks in your loyal readership.
March 9, 2026: Oligarchs & MAGA Minions Busy Emasculating American Media (MF)
Right now we replicate on how the present regime and a rich right-wing few are shopping for out and coopting the information media. Trump has minimize federal funding for NPR and PBS, whereas one billionaire household has purchased CBS and is making ready to purchase CNN. Our media are quick changing into propaganda instruments for the best. The Washington Publish, purchased by Jeff Bezos, seems to be following swimsuit. It’s estimated that 82% of the media is owned by proper wing forces. In six weeks, Stephen Colbert and the Late Night time Present may also be off the air because of CBS promoting its soul to MAGA oligarchs. Fascists, you see, don’t have any humorousness. ABC caved at first to comparable pressures as CBS once they fired Jimmy Kimmel, however protesters introduced him again. A small victory in a bleak media panorama.
March 10, 2026: “A Crime Towards Humanity” – How Sacred is the Air We Take For Granted? (MF)
Within the wake of Netanyahu bombing oil depots in Iran, The Guardian wrote: Thick black smoke was…rising within the sky, soot lined the streets and vehicles, balconies full of black gunk and the poisonous air…stuffed the lungs as Tehran wakened after an evening of airstrikes on town’s oil depots….* Does this not make completely clear that the acknowledged purpose of wanting regime change as a result of we care concerning the folks is a lie? One citizen of Tehran, an activist and former political prisoner, stated, “That is really against the law towards humanity.” Says Matthew: “Air is sacred. Interval. An authentic blessing. We can’t take it as a right.” There are issues extra evil than the doubling of oil costs being caused by this Netanyahu/Trump/Hegseth Warfare. There may be the poisoning of holy air.
March 11, 2026: The Position of Crackpot Christianity within the Iran Warfare & Protection Division (MF)
There may be such a factor as Crackpot Christianity. America at present has a director of the Protection Division, now referred to as the Warfare Division, who may be very a lot immersed in Crackpot Christianity. Pete Hegseth has been referred to as “a really harmful individual” who “revels within the carnage of Iran Warfare.” The Guardian described Hegseth at a current Pentagon press convention as “brash, bellicose” and sounding “extra like a cartoon bully than a sombre statesman” who “bragged about loss of life and destruction from the sky all day lengthy….”** Hegseth promised “to dispense with ‘silly guidelines of engagement”—guidelines designed to limit assaults on civilian populations. Clearly, Hegseth doesn’t perceive true Christianity.
March 12, 2026: Crackpot Christianity in MAGA Protection Division, continued (MF)
Crackpot Christianity is harmful within the arms of Pete Hegseth. Says one Marine Corps veteran: “I can’t even muster the phrases to explain his self-adulation, matched solely in scope by his obvious ethical depravity.” He’s “a humiliation.” As soon as, when drunk at a bar, he repeatedly shouted “Kill all Muslims!” No surprise he’s getting excessive on this Iran conflict. When Trump tried to go off this conflict as a way to carry on the apocalypse and the second coming of Christ, a whole bunch of service members complained to the Army Spiritual Freedom Basis. Chenu stated that theology tends to mimic “an aristocratic previous girl.” Matthew agrees, saying: It prefers to remain quiet when Evil looms, not in contrast to many church buildings in Germany within the Nineteen Thirties.
March 13, 2026: Diary from the Italian Countryside, half 1 (GG)
GG tells us that he lately moved to a distant Italian village, with a inhabitants of twelve residents. He concedes it feels pretty remoted. Nevertheless, it is usually a retreat. Contrasting with the conflict and chaos reigning within the bigger world, his house is immersed in nature and peace. He stated that it’s so silent that he turns into attentive to the tiniest bodily sensation, to the faintest beginning of a thought, to the smallest stirring of the soul. Thomas Aquinas stated that the human soul is able to containing the entire universe. GG believes that strongly. He feels related to nature, to folks whose books he has studied, and to their dwelling ideas. He feels related to the folks dying for the greed of others in Gaza, Iran and Israel, and to the folks being born. However any further, says he: I’ll try to really feel the universe from my tiny particular spot the place my soul has referred to as and settled me.
March 14, 2026: Diary from the Italian Countryside, half 2 (GG)
Serendipitously, a job grew to become out there for GG in a close-by metropolis. It entails spending time with highschool college students who’re “suspended” from their courses attributable to misbehaving. As a substitute of staying at dwelling for 2 days, they may spend these days with GG. He reviews: The quantity of ache is excruciating. One lady lives with two mentally sick dad and mom; one other lady has many siblings and no one notices whether or not she will get dwelling or not at night time. One boy can’t sit in school for greater than 10 minutes, and one other talks incessantly about his lifeless dad and mom. Lots of GG’s colleagues imagine that the suspension program must be understood as a punishment. They need from these college students solely obedience and adherence to the principles. However no effort is made to grasp the scholars or why they’re breaking guidelines. Adultism is rampant. Cynicism and hypocrisy rule the day. Happily, there are good individuals are making an attempt to do one thing good, typically with out understanding how.
* Deepa Father or mother, “‘Darkish, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of disaster after Tehran’s oil depots bombed,” The Guardian, March 8, 2026.
** David Smith, “‘A really harmful individual’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran conflict.” The Guardian, March 8, 2026.
“No conflict.” Photograph by Kevin Dooley on Flickr.
Associated Readings by Matthew Fox
Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ
A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Consciousness with Social Justice
Order of the Sacred Earth: An Intergenerational Imaginative and prescient of Love and Motion
Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Imaginative and prescient for a New Technology, by Adam Buck and Matthew Fox
Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Reworking Evil in Soul and Society
Matthew Fox: Important Writings on Creation Spirituality, ed. Charles Burack
The A.W.E. Challenge: Reinventing Schooling, Reinventing the Human
Creation Spirituality: Liberating Items for the Peoples of the Earth
