Re-inventing Work: An Interview with Matthew Fox

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April 18, 2018

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If you have built castles in the air; your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

- Henry David Thoreau -

Re-inventing Work: An Interview with Matthew Fox

An early and influential proponent of "Creation Spirituality," which recognizes the Divine in all creation and all creation in the Divine, embracing Buddhism, Judaism, Sufism, and Native American spirituality as well, Episcopalian priest Matthew Fox draws inspiration from the Catholic mystics such as Hildegard of Bingen, Thomas Aquinas, Saint Francis of Assisi, and especially Meister Eckhart. In this interview Fox explains the difference between work, our calling, and a job, which pays our bills. In an ideal situation, one could do both. But you can learn more here about what he calls the spiritual crisis in idleness and the woundedness that can come from work. { read more }