#JoranOppelt: We once looked to the church for "commentary on how to understand myths & relate them to our times, but as the excluded & disillusioned have fallen away from the church, we have lost touch w/ the art of storytelling & our ability to find ourselves & each other in story." bit.ly/4hkaVA6

Are we "the #lightoftheworld?" To one another? To ourselves? Can we find the #lightwithin? Even amidst the limits & #shadows & #darkness? #LeonardCohen: "There is a crack in everything. That's how the #light gets in." Light is everywhere & in all of us: the #Christ. bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

Join Matthew Fox & @gilduran.com w/ host @revpilot.bsky.social for a 2-part lecture/conversation series: Counterpoint: A Response to #PeterThiel’s #Antichrist hosted by Convergence. Wed.+Thurs., 10/8-9, 4:00-5:30 pm PT bit.ly/46ydZV6 #siliconvalleyreligion #Theocracy #religiousnotspiritual

#DavidKorten: Story of #Earthlife = "story of #Spirit immanent in all it creates, from the quantum particle to the grain of sand, to the mountain, to the living Earth, to the human being. All are manifestations of Spirit seeking to know itself thru becoming." #SacredEarth bit.ly/4hkaVA6

Who is #Christ?…the projection of our best aspirations of who we might become, including our capacity for #compassion & #caring, putting #justice before #greed & #injustice. #Forgiveness over revenge & hatred & rage against those labeled our enemies. bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

#Earth may now need the positive potentials of human intelligence & agency as much as we need Earth. It needs us, however, as healers & protectors, in stark contrast to our current roles as conquerors & exploiters. Getting it right will be an ultimate test of our competence & #values. bit.ly/4hkaVA6

Many people hearing of U.S. #ChristianNationalism in America, think it's all evangelical MAGAites. Not so: in this talk w/ Talia Baroncelli, Matthew Fox traces links btw Opus Dei’s fascist wing of RCC, Cardinal Burke, Steve Bannon & others. bit.ly/42E7Wgt & bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

T**** advisor #Thiel has said he believes #democracy is dead. And he is telling us what comes next while preaching about the #antichrist and his unique #religious worldview. He tells us, “I am religious but not #spiritual.” What could possibly go amiss? bit.ly/4neFtpL

What is the #Antichrist archetype & what does it have to do with the darker sides of MAGA and its Christian-nationalist backers? In this interview w/ Talia Barroncelli, Matthew unveils the parallels (part 1 of 2). bit.ly/3IuUiFJ and bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

#WangariMaatthai: "Urge individuals not to wait for divine intervention, but to give themselves the energy they imagine, or pray that God will provide, & to recognize that God expects them to take action & rise up & walk!" bit.ly/4hkaVA6

#Aquinas: "The proper objects of the ❤️ are #Truth & #Justice." Truth & justice ride together. #Lies & #injustice travel as companions. Lies pave the way to injustice. bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

Mussolini defined #fascism as “the marriage of government and corporations.” That marriage is tightening daily in today’s America. It will be a marriage sans #humor —unless it is the humor of beating up on others. #Colbert #Kimmel #Democracide #thedevilcannotbearscorn bit.ly/3KeRGwa

Jungian #SueMehrtens: The #Antichrist is "someone who foments #division, encourages #violence, abuses people, #lies, creates #chaos, & contravenes norms of #decency." He is also one who #fascinates. Sadly, much media & social media is powered by algorithms of that which fascinates. bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

Remember that #grief has three layers to it: First is #anger. The second—deeper—layer of grief is #sorrow. And the third layer of grief is #lettinggo & #movingon. #Compassion opens space for all. bit.ly/4kxtIcG

#Forgiveness is not about #altruism, nor is it about shutting one’s eyes to #justice and #injustice. It is, however, about moving on with one’s life and about finding #freedom so that living is possible again. bit.ly/4kxtIcG

#LessonsFromCharlieKirksDeath: #2: Words & ideas hurt & hurt deeply. We now know that, apparently, the murderer was in a relationship with a trans person, & Kirk was explicit about his belief that trans people don’t have a right to exist. bit.ly/42qR8cM #WordsHavePower #StopHate #TransLivesMatter

#ClaudiaPiccardi: #Mystics of all times have taught us thru their songs, their poems, & their writings, that when the #Divine is experienced, we find #commonground. When we walk the same terrain, the language in which the map is written loses importance. bit.ly/4hkaVA6

#CourseInMiracles: “[Idols] have the power to supply your lacks & value that you do not have.” Young men feel they are missing something & may follow an aggrieved & hating & raging demagogue to fill that void. bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

MAGA thunder(s) about #left-wingterrorists. But the evidence—the decade-long tally of #extremistmurders —shows the opposite. The #far-right has been responsible for the overwhelming majority of #extremist and #ideologically motivated #killings in the United States. bit.ly/3JZoFoh

#DavidKorten: "Meditation...reconnects us w/ our deeper self to reaffirm our true nature & purpose of our being...In #meditation [practice] we renew & #discipline our #warriorspirit as we exercise our individual agency to fulfill our contribution to #Creation's continued unfolding." bit.ly/4hkaVA6

How does MAGA #fake #manhood measure up to #authentic #masculinity? bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

The #billionaire #religious model seekng to take over the world—having taken over one U.S. political party & striving to ensure U.S. becomes a 1-party nation—is built on #greed. #PeterThiel explicitly condemns gov't of, by & for the people in favor of gov't of, by, & for the powerful. bit.ly/4pn5X9Z

Phil Wilson in "Donald Trump’s MAGA Death Cult Is Coming for Us All"-"something terrible, vast, and irredeemable has befallen us and we have no language to describe our predicament" - dissent: #Antichrist names the Something ( #evil ) succinctly. bit.ly/3Tz8mQW & bit.ly/4pmogMI

@gilduran.com, “Silicon Valley Seeks God”: "Why is #SiliconValley ...pivoting to #religion? SiliconValley is suddenly bonkers for #Christianity ."...A bonkers version ignoring Jesus’ teachings for something that “orients them twd apocalypse themes & MAGA fascism." bit.ly/4n0En0N & bit.ly/4mhGrk3

#MarkYoungblood: "We must each come to feel our connection to the Earth...as the center where heaven & earth meet. When we reclaim our divine heritage as sons & daughters of the Heavenly Father & Divine Mother, we will inevitably treasure & celebrate the sacredness of Earth." bit.ly/4hkaVA6

Years ago a powerful dream left me this message: "There is nothing wrong w/ humans today except: You have forgotten the sense of the #sacred." But if we have forgotten it, we can also recover it as well...and we must if life on Earth is to survive. bit.ly/4mcpY1j

Andrew Harvey writes: in a time like ours, we should pray to the #BlackMadonna as “queen of hell” b/c her love for humanity “makes her invincible to all demonic forces. ” Dealing w/ the #Antichrist requires we protect ourselves in the process. bit.ly/4kJtcbH Image: Javier Ullrrich Lemus.

Politicians of our day have tried to make a case that #wakingup is a negative thing. Being #woke is some kind of sin we are told. Whereas it is the very meaning of #metanoia or #changeofheart and #consciousness. bit.ly/4kxtIcG

An #OrderOfTheSacredEarth member spoke of forestalling MAGA hatred & offered sage advice: “We are being driven to a deeper #spirituality. One that sustains us at the edge of existence.” bit.ly/4hkaVA6

The #2ndcoming is in fact the #comingalive of humanity, waking up to our #dignity & #responsibility as other #Christs. Thus *we* are (ought to be) the 2nd coming of Christ. This is the next step in our evolutionary journey: Putting #love & #justice first. bit.ly/4nj9B2R

While praising the #EpsteinSurvivors' bravery in coming forward at the recent press conference on the Capitol steps, Tara Sullivan also cautions that many victims of #sexualassault may very likely have strong responses due to their own deep wounds. bit.ly/3I9b5xU See her reel: bit.ly/4mad2YT

One of the promises of #Project2025, blueprint for a T**** presidency put out by the #HeritageFoundation,...is to eliminate programs, disembowel bureaus, & end reporting on anything #climate related. [It is beginning already.] #antichrist bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

There is a price to pay for #racism & #scapegoating & denying #hospitality; there is much to gain by welcoming a younger population. Everyone will benefit— from older Americans on SocSec to younger, newer citizens fulfilling their dreams in a new land, like #immigrants of old. bit.ly/4gepo0P

SkylarWilson: Experiences of Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, etc,..continue to inspire, yet they are less helpful taken in place of our lived experiences of tastes, sensations, & movements w/in creative immediacy of the pulsing, wild Earth. bit.ly/4hkaVA6

Does an increasing number of men dropping out of the workforce help explain the shift in men’s growing appeal to Trump and his entreaties to Resentment? When men lack meaningful work, they rarely feel good about themselves. Data: bit.ly/4mOdahW #ReinventionOfWork bit.ly/3SZVL8J

I have written about the need to move from #retirement consciousness to a #refirement consciousness after one steps away from one’s regular #job. That we should toss out the language of “retirement” and replace it with “refirement.” bit.ly/3SZVL8J

God in #nature can also mean experiencing God in doing our #work, for it is natural that things go about their work. Humans certainly are drawn to expressing ourselves by the work we do. We call that expression the #ViaCreativa. #ReinventionOfWork bit.ly/3SZVL8J

Lis Shuler, AFL-CIO president: “People are waking up to the fact we don’t have to just sit back and take it, and the #labor movement is the place to go to channel that activism, to build what’s next, and we’re putting forward a vision for what the economy can be.” #ThankAUnion bit.ly/4g3zBwL

#SkylarWilson: Only after looking at & feeling our deepest disappointments & even despair can we be ready to be filled w/ hope & joy again. Only when we stop repressing that which isn't what we want can we let the chips fall where they may and show up fully to new possibilities. bit.ly/4hkaVA6

Thomas Berry: humanity can change profoundly when it recovers a #senseofthesacred. Religious antagonisms of the past can be overcome, traditions can be revitalized, & presence to a sacred universe can dynamize & sustain human affairs. #ChristvsAntichrist bit.ly/3X5SbMD

We are currently very close to the American democratic experiment perishing. Time for all hands on deck resisting, organizing, demanding and speaking truth to power in whatever ways we can. bit.ly/4n5Owc9

Broderick Rodell: The #OrderOfTheSacredEarth isn't dogmatic. It encourages us to explore & discover new ideas while preserving the best we know. It invites us to seek wisdom from all sources from science to religion. It welcomes the atheist & agnostic as well as the religious. bit.ly/40UAOka

#MeisterEckhart: If we are brothers & sisters in 1 God, then we are all #equals. Here lies the springboard for #compassion: to love, esteem, & consider all people like yourself, what happens to another, bad or good, should be as if it happened to you. bit.ly/45IpYjA

#MeisterEckhart celebrates the " #royalperson" found in Scripture, responsible for #justice & keeping the #community together. But Eckhart insists we are all royal persons, sharing in the #dignity & #nobility - & #responsibility - of royalty. bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

#WendellBerry: "There are no unsacred places;/there are only sacred places/& desecrated places." JoranOppelt: For ppl in lands ravaged by war, poverty, famine, or toxic industry, desecrated places may be all they know. For privileged others, desecrated lands ask our attention & care. bit.ly/4hkaVA6

The late Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutierrez, father of #liberationtheology: " #Gospelpreaching was in vain without the testimony of a life committed to #justice ….To do justice is a necessary condition for #salvation and for preaching salvation.” bit.ly/47a0TPT

#Doctrine is not the basis of faith or its starting point. Creation is the basis of trust, which is the biblical meaning of faith. Doctrine serves as a parameter, much like the sidelines in a soccer game, within which believers play out their faith. #OriginalBlessing bit.ly/3X5SbMD

Original Blessing is a revolutionary event in...spiritual life. It takes our habitual religious notions &...turns them around...sweeps us back to the past & then up & over into the future, back to recapture...forgotten wisdom, fwd to fresh insights & creativity. ~ #JoannaMacy bit.ly/47jfvfX

A big heart is #generous and has learned how to #forgive. The word “generous” bears within it the word genesis and #beginnings. Beginnings are sacred. bit.ly/HiddenSpirit...

Why do our #clergy feel the need for #LSD to have an experience of #transcendence? What is missing in our #seminary training and in our #liturgy? What is missing is the #mystics. And the way to becoming a mystic and democratizing #mysticism. bit.ly/4fM0THS