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Humor and the Via Creativa: Ken Feit, Itinerant Fool
One faculty member in my MA program was Ken Feit who identified as an itinerant fool. A Jesuit seminarian, he was told by his provincial to give up his foolishness and start teaching like other...
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Divine Foolishness with Ken Feit, Part II
Among his teachings Ken Feit used to say: “My vocation is to make extraordinary things ordinary; and ordinary things extraordinary….To see the ordinary extraordinarily is the essence of wonder and...
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Via Creativa & Via Transformativa Together, Part II
In yesterday’s and today’s meditations we are looking back to earlier DMs when we talked about Meditation that leads to prophetic action. Why? Because we want to underscore the importance of the Via...
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Vias Creativa and Transformativa: Ken Feit on Transcendence
Another contribution from spiritual fool Ken Feit (did you see the YouTube video of his work in our DM on 10/20? Another video is below…) is his teaching about transcendence. Ken had a genius for...
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Humor and the Prophetic Calling
Remember our meditations on the spiritual fool Ken Feit who reminded us we can and should make fun of most things in life? Samantha Bee debunks the unscalable border wall. Well, humor is one more...
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Play and Humor in a Time of Coronavirus Crisis
An important part of survival for our species whether in good times or in bad—and especially in bad—is humor, and play, which in turn feed our creativity. And gives us perspective including that of...
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Silly SCOTUS Busy on a Non-case and a Non-existent Gay Couple
Sometimes history—including current history—is so absurd that it has to make one laugh (as well as cry). People with intense ideologies–and fascism is nothing if it is not an intense ideology–tend...
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Prophets and Warriors, Humor and Antiwarriors
Yesterday in our meditation and video we learned from Broken Walk, and from an indigenous student of mine, and from Hafiz, of the heart dimension to the warrior. The warrior follows one’s heart—not...
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The Moral Imagination & Holiness of Norman Lear
Norman Lear was a champion of moral imagination, as all prophets are. CBS correspondent Mo Rocca looks back on the life and career of producer and social activist Norman Lear. CBS Sunday Morning I...
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The Role of Art in Healing, Love & Justice-Making
Our two most recent DMs celebrated the life and work of Norman Lear who revolutionized television comedy and television itself by daring to shed light on the brokenness in our society. His method?...
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