About the Author: Matthew Fox

Matthew Fox holds a doctorate in spirituality from the Institut Catholique de Paris and has authored 35 books on spirituality and contemporary culture that have been translated into 74 languages. Fox has devoted 45 years to developing and teaching the tradition of Creation Spirituality and in doing so has reinvented forms of education and worship (called The Cosmic Mass). His work is inclusive of today’s science and world spiritual traditions and has awakened millions to the much neglected earth-based mystical tradition of the West. He has helped to rediscover Hildegard of Bingen, Meister Eckhart, Thomas Aquinas. Among his books are Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society; A Way To God: Thomas Merton's Creation Spirituality Journey; Meister Eckhart: A Mystic-Warrior For Our Times; Hildegard of Bingen: A Saint for Our Times; Confessions: The Making of a Postdenominational Priest; Stations of the Cosmic Christ; Order of the Sacred Earth; and Naming the Unnameable: 89 Wonderful and Useful Name for God...Including the Unnameable God. A new project launched on Mother's Day 2019 to encourage a passionate response to the news of climate change advancing so rapidly, is Dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org, a free daily meditation to support mystic/prophets or sacred activists. Another project, working with two young co-directors, Sklyar Wilson and Jen Listug, has been the launching of the Order of the Sacred Earth. See www.foxinstitute-cs.org
  • By Published On: January 17, 2025

    A spiritual warrior takes care of his or her body and soul in order to be strong.  And a spiritual warrior knows what he or she stands for, refines it, and finds allies for the resistance.

  • By Published On: December 19, 2024

    This season of the return of Light (Solstice) and the miracle of Light (Hanukkah) and the announcement of angels of doxa or glory and the birth of Christ incarnated (Christmas) and birthing community based on principles that are light-filled (Kwanzaa) promises a certain enlightenment to humanity for sure. 

  • As Taught Me by Sister Jose Hobday

    By Published On: December 9, 2024

    One of the first prayers Sister Jose ever taught me was the Prayer to the Four Directions. It offers an excellent way to begin each day within a healthy context—creation itself—the cosmos. It puts the cosmos as the setting for our lives, connecting the psyche to the cosmos, thus deepening the Self and not just the self.

  • For a Time of Rupture, Distress & Rising Fascism

    By Published On: November 10, 2024

    There is a grief ritual that I can heartily recommend at this time of profound distress and dread and even doom. But also potential grace. 

  • A Handbook for the 2024 Election

    By Published On: September 12, 2024

    Best Selling Theologian Matthew Fox Challenges Trump & MAGA with his new book: "Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election"

  • By Published On: June 24, 2024

    Juneteenth is a celebration of the end of slavery, a day to honor the survival and resilience of Black people throughout 400 years of sheer inhumanity: from the profound sadism of slavery, through the Jim Crow laws, lynchings, and segregation, to the racism of today. 

  • By Published On: June 9, 2024

    The great prophet and mystic of the middle ages, Meister Eckhart (1260-1329), devotes an entire treatise to the “Noble” or “Aristocrat” that resides in each of us. Following are some observations he offers on the nobility we carry within us.

  • By Published On: May 27, 2024

    Meister Eckhart asks, "How can anyone be compassionate toward her neighbor who is not compassionate toward herself?" This is why Jesus says: ‘Be compassionate!'

  • By Published On: March 4, 2024

    Will American politicians stand up to Putin? Will they learn anything from the sacrifice of Navalny?

  • A Cosmic Celebration for Kids of All Ages

    By Published On: December 8, 2023

    In this full-color, beautifully illustrated paperback book, Matthew Fox introduces ideas from "Creation Spirituality" to kids of all ages.

  • By Published On: June 19, 2023

    This week we celebrate beginning of summer (Wednesday). Let us remember how generous the universe is. For example, the sun. The entire energy of the earth runs on one billionth (!) of the energy the sun emits every day.

  • By Published On: May 18, 2023

    We are considering how Courage, like Joy, is one of the signs of holiness in our time.  In yesterday’s meditation, Martin Luther King Jr. reminded us that we “must love something more than the fear of death” if we are to live. 

  • By Published On: February 17, 2023

    The Creation Spirituality Lineage Calling All Social and Environmental Activists, Mystic Explorers, Justice Makers, Cosmic Thinkers, Earth Keepers

  • By Published On: January 16, 2023

    Dr. Martin Luther King, whose Feast Day we celebrate today, had his criticism of church and religion.

  • 365 Readings and Meditations

    By Published On: December 12, 2022

    A true religious renewal, according to Fox, can arise only through the mystical dimension of faith.

  • Presented in Four Paths, Twenty-Six Themes, and Two Questions

    By Published On: November 29, 2022

    Here is a reissue of the critically acclaimed bestseller, named one of the "20 books that changed the world" in New Age Journal's Annual Source Book for 1995.

  • By Published On: June 27, 2022

    The very tone of Alito’s document, as one historian has pointed out, is ugly to the core.  There is no attempt to reach out to others or make common ground or even to put out feelings that are positive. 

  • By Published On: May 25, 2022

    We continue our meditations on Evil and Hatred.  To go deeper, to face these realities, we must become stronger.  How do we do that?

  • By Published On: April 25, 2022

    A previously recorded live event exploring Creation Spirituality and Sacred Activism hosted by Matthew Fox and Andrew Harvey. Enjoy over 10-hours of dialogue from Matthew Fox and Andrew Harvey and BONUS FOOTAGE from Joanna Macy and Bruce Chilton.

  • By Published On: April 14, 2022

    Carl Jung was ill at ease with understanding evil as a “privation of the good” and I tend to agree with him.  For I, like many, experience evil both as a distancing from the good but also as a kind of force or power or malicious intelligence in our midst.

  • Q&A with Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox

    By Published On: April 7, 2022

    How can Christians get a firm foundation with scripture that has been influenced by the spirit of political influence by Kings and Popes and transcriptionists who were influenced by governments? A bit of a crisis of faith here. Can there still be a Divine Jesus without true historical knowledge of Him?

  • Selected with an Introduction by Charles Burack

    By Published On: March 23, 2022

    In his Introduction to Matthew Fox, Dr. Burack recounts the life and influences that helped form Fox’s outlook and spirituality, from the medieval mystic Meister Eckhart to 20th century Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. The book then presents selections from all Fox’s major works.

  • By Published On: November 8, 2021

    In the shadow of COP26 we are meditating on the powerful role that Deep Ecumenism can and must play in the future of the planet.  To get the most out of individual humans and our diverse communities, we must include the spiritual dimension.  That is where the fire of excitement and passion, sacrifice and visions, is lit and stays lit.

  • By Published On: October 11, 2021

    With all the news today of doom and gloom for our world, do you think religion can save humanity?