A great man died this week on Monday, which was Earth Day and Passover Day.  Rev. Cecil Williams, co-founder in 1963 of Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District, passed on at age 94.  A mystic and prophet who knew what healthy religion is meant to be, I think it can be said that Cecil […] The post Remembering Cecil Williams: A Great & Real Religious/Spiritual Leader appeared first on Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox ..read more

Bill McKibben observes in the CommonDreams article* that if the world economy loses $38 trillion per year due to climate change by the beginning of 2050, it “seems like a lot.”  He suggests that “these findings should persuade major companies to embrace climate action for self-interest reasons.”   Fossil fuel companies and banks are very good at […] The post Forces of Greed & Forces of Justice Joining to Combat Climate Change? appeared first on Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox ..read more

In honor of the liberation from slavery and the “angel of death” in this Passover season, and in honor of Earth Day this week, yesterday’s and Saturday’s DM dealt with a recent study about Climate and Economics. Is Climate Change an “angel of death” coming to get us all?   If so, what can we do about […] The post The Silver Lining in Recent Bad News about Climate Change appeared first on Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox ..read more

What makes the current scientific study about climate change a game changer for the environmental movement fighting Climate Change is this: Previous information aroused people (and some governments) with a conscience considering the damage to come for world order and the disappearance of millions of species.  The droughts, floods, wild fires, increased hurricanes, rising seas, […] The post The Silver Lining & Possible Game Changer Regarding Climate Change appeared first on Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox ..read more

In Saturday’s DM, we shared Rabbi Heschel’s valuable reflections on Liberation and Redemption, and how all human deeds are meant to “advance the drama of redemption.”  All are called to participate in such works of liberation—and Passover commemorates that. He says our work for compassion and justice is meant to be a joyful work that elicits […] The post Earth Day, Passover & the Cost of Climate Change appeared first on Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox ..read more

April 15, 2024: Is the World Love as Teilhard Teaches?Teilhard de Chardin said that we should add to the teaching “God is Love” a teaching that “The World is Love.” Is he being naive or is he onto something? Teilhard was a passionate advocate of evolution, and it cost him much professionally. He was banished to […] The post Week of 4/15-20/2024: The World as Love, Jews of Conscience, Passover & Earth Day appeared first on Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox ..read more

On Monday, we are celebrating both Earth Day and Passover for they fall on the same day this year. That synchronicity is special. Maybe there is a deep meaning behind honoring Earth’s Liberation and the Israelites’ Liberation on the same Holy Day this Spring. The Jews were enslaved and unfree at the time of the original Passover. Plagues […] The post Earth Day & Passover 2024: Heschel on Passover appeared first on Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox ..read more

We are meditating on God as Love and the World as Love—the latter being a statement proposed by Teilhard de Chardin in light of the history of evolution that, in his view, has been a history of increased consciousness and awareness of the Love that the universe bestows on us. How the direction of evolution […] The post More on Love & Collective Atonement from Jews of Conscience appeared first on Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox ..read more

We have been meditating on Teilhard’s teaching that not only is God Love but also “the world is Love.”  We have brought Thomas Aquinas, Julian of Norwich, Ernesto Cardinale and others into the conversation as well. But often the news tells us that humans are very far from love and loving—a huge gap exists between a […] The post Jews of Conscience Speaking Out on Brutality to Palestinians appeared first on Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox ..read more

In yesterday’s DM, we posed a question triggered by the teachings of Teilhard de Chardin–Should we not only recognize that “God is Love”, but also that “the World is Love”? Again, by “world” Teilhard is not talking about the world that humanity makes so much as the bigger picture—the world that makes us.  The world that […] The post Aquinas & Teilhard Envisioning the World as Love appeared first on Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox ..read more