This can be a weekly abstract of the earlier week’s Day by day Meditations. Some are penned by Matthew Fox (MF), and a few by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You’ll be able to click on on the title of a DM in an effort to view the unique piece in its entirety. Additionally, please observe, we are going to proceed to supply a video instructing by Matthew every Monday.
September 15, 2025: Extra on Thiel & the Billionaire Faith Looking for to Conquer the World (MF)
We proceed to discover the theme of Thiel and others who’re speaking concerning the antichrist. Why are they doing this? Partly as a result of we live in apocalyptic instances. Battles of evil vs. good are raging throughout us. Purpose #2, billionaires wish to management the faith of the longer term. And AI could also be a part of it. Thomas Aquinas nevertheless warns that “greed is aware of no restrict and tends to infinity.” The billionaire non secular mannequin now seeks to take over the world, having succeeded in taking up one political social gathering in America. In the meantime, Thiel’s secretive surveillance firm Palantir is being utilized by our “president” to realize entry to delicate private info,, obtained earlier this yr by DOGE and Musk. Bernie Sanders warns: “Our civil liberties and proper to privateness shouldn’t be the worth we pay for safety.”
September 16, 2025: Let Us Not Canonize Charlie Kirk (MF)
When right-wing activist Charlie Kirk was killed final week, Democratic leaders decried the act and known as out for prayers for the household. Not trump. He instantly went on air and blamed the “radical left” even when nobody on the time knew who the killer was. Now we all know it was a younger man who recognized as impartial and who had Republican mother and father. Musk joined in saying, “The Left is the social gathering of homicide.” Patrice Mersault identified instantly following Kirk’s loss of life that MAGA “thundered about ‘left-wing terrorists.” However the proof—the decade-long tally of extremist murders—reveals the alternative. The far-right has been liable for the overwhelming majority of extremist and ideologically motivated killings in the USA….*
September 17, 2025: Classes from the Homicide of Charlie Kirk (MF)
The obvious lesson to be taught from the homicide of Charlie Kirk is that individuals shouldn’t be murdered for sharing their political views, nevertheless malicious they might be. Secondly, phrases have the ability to harm. The killer was in a relationship with a trans individual, and Kirk was express about his perception that trans folks haven’t any proper to exist. Third, reality issues. Fourth, democracy issues. Governor Cox of Utah, himself a Mormon and conservative just like the assassin’s household, cited the premise of American democracy articulated by Abraham Lincoln—that each American has the correct to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This consists of trans folks. Fifth, variety issues. Kirk was a spokesperson for Christian nationalism, which is the precise reverse of every thing Christ taught.
September 18, 2025: Three Classes in Radicalization (GG)
The time period “radicalized” was employed completely about younger Muslims and in connection to mosques the place anti-Western sentiments had been preached. Now it appears to embody anybody who opposes the present developments of Western civilization as an entire. GG says he doesn’t thoughts being labeled a radical, however he additionally realizes he can not afford to unfold himself too skinny. He says: I have to as an alternative go deep and take out of the treasure of my coronary heart what’s most important and invaluable for me. GG additionally says that his form of radicalization is nonviolent, which doesn’t merely imply that he doesn’t assault others bodily, however that he make an effort to talk to the humanity in those that suppose otherwise than he. GG is fascinated with listening to about what would possibly make you are feeling radicalized?
September 19, 2025: Roots
GG says: Radicalization will not be all the time geared towards violence and isn’t all the time unhealthy. Nonetheless, being radically nonviolent is a means of present on the earth which may go away you alone, or quite seeking your tribe. This brings to thoughts Rilke, who wrote: My God is darkish and like a clump / of 100 roots consuming silently. GG says: Radical nonviolence is one thing that grabs you inside and doesn’t help you select your battles relaxed, or to decide on them in any respect. You’re quite chosen. Those that are so chosen have roots which aren’t cultural or ethnic however…(perceive) a common communion that begins with humankind and extends to all creatures.
September 20, 2025: The Order of the Sacred Earth
The Order of the Sacred Earth, born of considered one of Matthew Fox’s goals and led by his two co-founders, Skylar Wilson and Jennifer Listug, provides us an opportunity to be a part of a tribe. The one requirement is to utter this one vow: I promise to be one of the best lover and one of the best defender of the Earth that I may be. These sentiments are simply traced to the Creation Spirituality archetypes of Mystic and Prophet. A vow must be pronounced solely after you’ve got felt the decision to be the form of person who the vow describes. You can’t merely select this or that vow such as you would an merchandise in a grocery retailer. Your vow turns into a robust device. It means that you can deal with what actually issues. The OSE meets on-line month-to-month. Skylar not too long ago mentioned that a very powerful perform of those conferences proper now could be the “container of the grief” they supply. However folks additionally share their tales of resistance and success, which is clearly inspiring and uplifting. Yow will discover extra concerning the Order of the Sacred Earth HERE.
* Patrice Mersault, “The Lethal Arithmetic of Proper-Wing Extremism: 2015-2025.” Open Letters by Mersault, Patrice Mersault’s Substack weblog.
Banner picture: “Employees over Billionaires.” Signal held at a Labor Day protest in Doylestown, PA on September 1, 2025. Photograph by Cynthia Greb. Used with permission.
Really helpful Studying
Prayer: A Radical Response to Life
How do prayer and mysticism relate to the battle for social and ecological justice? Fox defines prayer as a radical response to life that features our “Sure” to life (mysticism) and our “No” to forces that fight life (prophecy). How can we outline grownup prayer? And the way—if in any respect—do prayer and mysticism relate to the battle for social and ecological justice? Certainly one of Matthew Fox’s earliest books, initially revealed below the title On Changing into a Musical, Mystical Bear: Spirituality American Fashion, Prayer introduces a mystical/prophetic spirituality and a mature conception of the way to pray. Referred to as a “basic” when it first appeared, it lays out the distinction between the creation spirituality custom and the autumn/redemption custom that has so dominated Western theology since Augustine. A sensible and theoretical guide, it lays the groundwork for Fox’s later works.
“One of many best books I’ve learn on up to date spirituality.” – Rabbi Sholom A. Singer
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 typically used to unfold management and worry. Nonetheless, given at this time’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 analyzing 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, creator of Anatomy of the Spirit and Conversations with the Divine.
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Creation Spirituality: Liberating Items for the Peoples of the Earth
Fox’s spirituality weds the therapeutic and liberation present in North American Creation Spirituality and in South American Liberation Theology. Creation Spirituality challenges readers of each non secular and political persuasion to unite in a brand new imaginative and prescient by which we be taught to honor the earth and the individuals who inhabit it because the reward of an excellent and simply Creator.
“A watershed theological work that provides a standard floor for non secular seekers and activists of all stripes.” — Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Follow.
“I’m studying Liberating Items for the Folks of the Earth by Matt Fox. He’s one which fills my coronary heart and thoughts for brand new life despite a lot that’s violent in our world.” ~ Sister Dorothy Stang.
Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Remodeling Evil in Soul and Society
Visionary theologian and best-selling creator Matthew Fox provides a brand new theology of evil that basically modifications the standard notion of excellent and evil and factors the way in which to a extra enlightened therapy of ourselves, each other, and all of nature. In evaluating the Jap custom of the 7 chakras to the Western custom of the 7 capital sins, Fox permits us to suppose creatively about our capability for private and institutional evil and what we are able to do about them.
“A scholarly masterpiece embodying a greater imaginative and prescient and depth of notion far past the grasp of anyone single science. A breath-taking evaluation.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, creator of Quantum Theology: Religious Implications of the New Physics
A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Consciousness with Social Justice
In A Spirituality Named Compassion, Matthew Fox delivers a profound exploration of the which means and apply of compassion. Establishing a spirituality for the longer term that guarantees private, social, and world therapeutic, Fox marries mysticism with social justice, main the way in which towards a gentler and extra ecological spirituality and an acceptance of our interdependence which is the substratum of all compassionate exercise.
“Effectively price our deepest consideration…Places compassion into its correct focus after centuries of neglect.” –The Catholic Register
Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Imaginative and prescient for a New Era
Authors Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox encourage us to make use of our abilities in service of compassion and justice and to maneuver past our damaged techniques–financial, political, academic, and spiritual–discovering a spirituality that not solely helps us to get alongside, but additionally encourages us to reevaluate our traditions, reworking them and within the course of constructing a extra sacred and simply world. Incorporating the phrases of younger activist leaders culled from interviews and surveys, the guide supplies a framework that’s intentionally interfaith and speaks to our profound craving for a life with religious objective and for a greater world.
“Occupy Spirituality is a robust, inspiring, and important name to embodied consciousness and enlightened actions.”
~~ Julia Butterfly Hill, environmental activist and creator of The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Lady, and the Battle to Save the Redwoods
