Fox Institute for Creation Spirituality

01/13/2024

03/01/2023

How do we get the sense of the sacred back once it has been lost? We have to go beyond the human, to the bigger context of creation itself, the universe itself all 13.8 billion years of it that have brought us into existence and made this moment possible. Thomas Berry put it this way: We … Saved b...

03/01/2023

The perfect ritual book for the Order of the Sacred Earth...

03/01/2023

A new take on Creation Spirituality...

10/15/2019

UCOMING COURSE:

This course focuses on how today’s political polarization undermines one of the most resilient traditional values among rural communities in America’s Heartland: the capacity and willingness of people in local communities to work and live together as good neighbors, who look out for each other instead of harboring suspicion of each other.

This course will probe the sources of the anger, pain and anguish of rural communities that are routinely ignored by our politicians and the mass media. It will also challenge the destructive justification of using this pain and anger in blaming, shaming, and scapegoating others. We will discuss different examples of religious anger in order to differentiate and ‘weed’ out the negative images of anger above—from the prophetic and truly biblical understanding of ‘rightful’ (‘righteous’) anger in protecting ourselves and all those who are unjustly treated.

Only when we responsibly care for our constructive anger in caring for each other, while

enjoying and learning from our differences, can we restore and heal our increasingly vulnerable communities in the spiritual transformation from enraged to engaged citizens.

Option 1: Open & Curious Class (open to public)

Participants may register and pay in advance for the public offerings scheduled during the week.

$15 per public lecture or $40 for all three

Option 2: Delving Deeper Class (for those eager to study and delve deeper)

Participants can register and pay in advance for the “in-class” sessions.

Participants agree to read the advanced readings and will be prepared to attend all of the

“in-class” sessions scheduled throughout the four days.

$675 per participant

Fox Institute's Course Schedule, applicaiton process, information.

10/12/2019

It has been my privilege to teach Mary Oliver’s poetry in the context of courses on spirituality.  She is a champion within the creation spirituality lineage, of that there can be no doubt.  Consider just a few of her giftings.  Franz Marc was a painter who died a young man in the First World W...

10/11/2019

Not only does today’s science instruct us in how creativity has been baked into the universe from the get-go 13.8 billion years ago, and not only can we say evolution is itself a story of the creativity of the universe, but science itself is a creative enterprise. Recently, in a book called Ways T...

10/10/2019

In yesterday’s meditation we considered how science recognizes wildness to be intrinsic to creativity in the universe and how a dance between chaos and order brings creativity to life.  Architect Charles Jencks, in his book The Architecture of the Jumping Universe, explains that the universe oper...

10/08/2019

In her powerful book, Let the Circle Be Unbroken: The Implications of African Spirituality in the Diaspora, Dr. Marimba Ani (Richards) recognizes the profound spirituality of community imagination and makes explicit the link in the African spiritual consciousness between ritual, music, and the makin...

10/07/2019

W. B. Yeats believed that it was only with Greek and Roman culture that humans became all-important. Until then, other questions occupied the human soul:“One was less interested in man…than in divine revelations, in changes among the heavens and the gods, which can hardly be expressed at all, an...

10/06/2019

We are examining the role of art and creativity among various spiritual traditions of the world. In Islam, the Sufi mystic Hafiz addresses the question: What is Art? “Art is the conversation between lovers.Art offers an opening for the heart.True art makes the divine silence in the soulbreak into ...