It is a weekly abstract of the earlier week’s Day by day Meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF), and a few by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You possibly can click on on the title of a DM with a purpose to view the unique piece in its entirety. Additionally, please observe, we’ll proceed to supply a video educating by Matthew every Monday.
October 20, 2025: Past Kings—and Past Führers Too?
Over seven million People, fed up with the right-wing authoritarianism of the present administration, took to the streets to protest within the second nice “No Kings” march. However it’s not simply the White Home. Proper-wing politics can be in proof within the Supreme Courtroom and within the Republican majority of each homes of Congress. All are falling sway to greed. At present, 80% of People consider marketing campaign corruption is destroying America; and 84% consider particular curiosity teams and lobbyists wield an excessive amount of energy. In the meantime, the Speaker of the Home has closed Congress for 28 days, doing every part he can to postpone a newly-elected Democratic consultant from Arizona from taking the oath of workplace. Why? Her vote will assure the discharge of the Epstein Information.
October 21, 2025: The New Fundamentalist Faith from Silicon Valley (MF)
A brand new and harmful faith is rising from the bowels of Silicon Valley. It’s rooted in right-wing politics and speak of the antichrist. However Peter Tiel’s antichrists are Greta Thunberg and Invoice Gates, ie., anybody who opposes unbridled capitalism or fossil fuels. Sadly, he and different billionaires are given an enormous megaphone as a result of they personal a lot of the media. And with the latest dissolution of PBS and NPR by this administration, it might not be lengthy earlier than all media resembles Fox non-Information. Then the dumbing down of America can be nearly full. Journalist Gil Duran (whom Matthew dialogued with final week) stated that these billionaires have type of reached a degree the place they’ve a lot wealth, and a lot egomania…that they determine they’re going to rule the world and that democracy is an outdated type of software program. A harmful faith certainly.
October 22, 2025: Shamanism and the Goddess (GG)
Just lately, GG stunned himself by stating in a category that the unique faith was shamanism, from which Judaism in addition to early Christianity derived a great deal. Some thirty years in the past, he went on a visit to Sardinia with two buddies, the place they explored a plethora of Neolithic sacred websites. In Could of 2026, GG will return to Sardinia to supply a retreat the place related websites can be visited—notably, sacred sizzling springs and deep contemporary wells, a necropolis hewn within the rock, and a Neolithic temple. As well as, a crew of devoted practitioners of varied sacred arts will be a part of GG to assist every participant calm down into the womb of the Goddess. In case you are , chances are you’ll register HERE.
Images courtesy of Mario Bonfanti.
October 23, 2025: Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Pal, Brother & Jewish Prophet of Our Time (MF)
Prophet, activist, instructor Rabbi Arthur Waskow handed this previous week on the age of 92. Over his lifetime, Arthur was arrested greater than two dozen occasions. He additionally wrote greater than two dozen books, together with Godwrestling, Torah of the Earth: Exploring 4,000 Years of Ecology in Jewish Thought, and Seasons of Our Pleasure. He’s credited with coining the time period “Jewish Renewal” and co-founded ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and others—a motion “grounded in ‘Judaism’s prophetic and mystical traditions.’” Matthew’s benediction: Thanks, Arthur, for being the Godwrestler you all the time had been proper as much as the top. Could we comply with in your holy footsteps and with what you known as “holy chutzpah.”
October 24, 2025: Educating below the Shadow of Neo-Fascism (half one) (GG)
Years in the past, GG translated into Italian one of many lesser-known books penned by Matthew Fox: The A.W.E. Undertaking: Reinventing Schooling, Reinventing the Human. In Italian, we merely name it Educare alla meraviglia (“educating via surprise.”) Final yr, GG was knowledgeable by the publishing home that it was certainly one of their bestsellers, because of phrase of mouth by academics. Now, as kids get hooked on screens (telephones, tablets, and so on.) earlier and earlier, this guide is required greater than ever. And, it doesn’t assist that there’s such an authoritarian pedagogy strongly embedded within the Italian state faculty system. Vanna Iori wrote in Avvenire (the Italian Catholic bishops’ newspaper) that the time of early childhood is the time of the physique… Kids should be capable of play with out being interrupted, with out every of their life-moments turning into digitalized and “shared.” Moreover: Kids want time. They want slowness. Arms soiled with sand, collected rocks, invented tales, and makeshift constructions. They want grown-ups who know the way to wait, observe, and marvel….
October 25, 2025: Educating below the Shadow of Neo-Fascism (half two) (GG)
For the previous two weeks, GG has been educating at a highschool. He notices nervousness amongst each academics and college students. Academics query their mission whereas college students fear about efficiency. GG stories that his college students are fantastic, budding human beings. However the instructional system is soul-deadening. They’re compelled to take a seat at their desks for seven to 9 hours a day. They’re fed an infinite quantity of data from a dozen totally different topics. Once they get again house, after 3 pm, they’re speculated to learn, research, and memorize. They’re all the time drained. Many many years in the past, Marie-Dominique Chenu spoke of “exhausted pedagogy.” What an correct description. As Matthew has stated, “We’d like knowledge faculties and never simply data factories!” *
* Matthew Fox, Confessions: The Making of a Publish-Denominational Priest, p. 356.
Banner picture: Signal at No Kings protest in Doylestown, PA, October 18, 2025. Photograph by Cynthia Greb. Used with permission.
Beneficial Studying
Confessions: The Making of a Publish-Denominational Priest (Revised/Up to date Version)
Matthew Fox’s stirring autobiography, Confessions, reveals his private, mental, and non secular journey from altar boy, to Dominican priest, to his eventual break with the Vatican. 5 new chapters on this revised and up to date version deliver added perspective in mild of the writer’s continued journey, and his reflections on the present modifications happening in church, society and the surroundings.
“The unfolding story of this irrepressible non secular revolutionary enlivens the thoughts and emboldens the guts — should studying for anybody interested by braveness, creativity, and the way forward for faith.”
—Joanna Macy, writer of World as Lover, World as Self
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 concern. Nonetheless, given at the moment’s rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables on this guide 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 guide with an open thoughts. Good and evil are actual forces in our world. ~~ Caroline Myss, writer of Anatomy of the Spirit and Conversations with the Divine.
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The A.W.E. Undertaking reminds us that awe is the suitable response to the unfathomable surprise that’s creation… A.W.E. can be the acronym for Fox’s proposed model of studying – an method to steadiness the three R’s. This method to studying, eldering, and mentoring is clever sufficient to honor the teachings of the Ancestors, to nurture Knowledge in addition to imparting data, and to Educate via Fox’s 10 C’s. The ten C’s are the core of the A.W.E. philosophy and technique of training, and embrace: compassion, contemplation, and creativity. The A.W.E. Undertaking does for the huge topic of “studying” what Fox’s Reinvention of Work did for vocation and Unique Blessing did for theology. Included within the guide is a dvd of the ten C’s put to 10 video raps created and carried out by Professor Pitt.
“An awe-based imaginative and prescient of instructional renewal.” — Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Observe.
In certainly one of his foundational works, Fox engages with a few of historical past’s biggest mystics, philosophers, and prophets in profound and hard-hitting essays on such various matters as Eco-Spirituality, AIDS, homosexuality, non secular feminism, environmental revolution, Native American spirituality, Christian mysticism, Artwork and Spirituality, Artwork as Meditation, Interfaith or Deep Ecumenism and extra.
