Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox

12/16/2025

In a Nativity scene at St. Susanna Roman Catholic Parish in Dedham, Massachusetts, the Christ child is missing this Christmas. So too are Mary and Joseph. Instead, there sits a hand-painted sign: “ICE was here.” Another sign reads: “The Holy Family is safe in the Sanctuary of our Church. If y...

12/16/2025

Last week I was in Florence, Italy, to deliver a lecture on Matthew Fox and Creation Spirituality. My job was to close a series of lectures on “Saving Planet Earth,” which sounded very much like the 1970s to me, but I guess it was meant tongue-in-cheek. In fact, the speakers before me were well-...

12/12/2025

It so happens that this past Sunday, I had the privilege of attending a rich seminar on the Black Madonna taught by Christena Cleveland, PhD, author of God Is a Black Woman. And on Monday night, Alessandra Belloni and I conducted a workshop on the Black Madonna as well. Alessandra is the author of t...

12/12/2025

In the Western Catholic tradition, this time of Advent — roughly coinciding with the darkening month of December — is a time of imploration for justice. The faithful know that such a request is answered with the birth of the Savior, yet they are not spared from invoking such a birth in earnest. ...

12/12/2025

Italian poet Franco Arminio recently said something very simple yet profound: “We must fight for justice, otherwise we get sick.” To me, this is a direct way to touch on the theme of action detached from the hope of success, that is present in so many spiritual traditions.  Arminio insists that...

12/12/2025

We have been meditating on gratitude in recent DMs. The peculiar religion being pushed by certain Silicon Valley billionaires currently in very high places in American politics strikes me as being very lacking in either joy or gratitude. But ever so big in visions of apocalypse and destruction. On r...

12/08/2025

In Saturday’s DM, we meditated on gratitude by way of an excellent article by Thom Hartmann. Better known for his prophetic writing than his writing about his inner life, I for one appreciate his courage and candor in sharing his spiritual practice with us. Clearly, his prophetic and mystical work...

12/08/2025

This past week I was struck by an article for Thanksgiving Day written by Thom Hartmann, whom I consider one of the most courageous and lucid prophetic writers of our time. I have been referring to him often lately in the DMs and respect his critical consciousness and his practiced way of “interfe...

12/06/2025

Monday December 8 – 4:00pm PT / 7:00 PM ET

Celebrate the traditional feast of the Black Madonna  And the Immaculate Conception  On Monday December 8 – 4:00pm PT / 7:00 PM ET Honoring the Black Madonna as Our Lady of Freedom (Madonna della Libera) Live music, Lecture and Conversation with spiritual

12/06/2025

Saturday, December 6th, 12 pm Eastern

NEXT LIVE MASTERCLASS: Dorothee Soelle: The Mystical Feminist Who Transformed Theology through Suffering | DECEMBER 6, 12PM EST

12/05/2025

When the foundations of the world are shaken, what can the just do? This old cry from the Psalms is more contemporary than ever. Francesca Albanese, special rapporteur of the UN for the occupied Palestinian territories, has clearly shown with facts and numbers in her last report that not only the U....

12/05/2025

The construction of a European common identity in the last 50 years or so has been delegated to the so-called “Western values,” which were supposed to have some magical value. It made some sense, given that the EU states do not make reference to a common nation, don’t have a common language, a...