<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear Colleagues,</div>This is one meditation dealing with evil. There are others on the website. I”m concerned about this country and the evil that has been set loose. I’m also re-thinking my participation on Facebook. Do you have any thoughts on that subject? <div class="">Marianna Bailey<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox" <<a href="mailto:Team@DailyMeditationsWithMatthewFox.Org" class="">Team@DailyMeditationsWithMatthewFox.Org</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">[DailyMeditations] 2/4/20:  Moving Beyond Evil: Wisdom from Howard Thurman</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">February 4, 2020 at 3:32:37 AM EST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"Marianna Bailey" <<a href="mailto:wmbailey@charter.net" class="">wmbailey@charter.net</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class="divbody" style="font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(228, 237, 247); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; font-family: arial; line-height: 1.1; width: 690px;"><table class="template-table" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" align="left" style="font-size: 14px; min-width: auto; background-color: rgb(228, 237, 247); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="center" valign="top" width="100%" class=""><table class="template-table" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="650" bgcolor="#e4edf7" style="font-size: 14px; min-width: auto; max-width: 650px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td id="layout_table_aa09a87899b35f90e7d61bc86f7a382ff358164b" valign="top" align="center" width="650" class=""><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="layout-table layout root-table" width="650" style="font-size: 14px; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td id="layout-row-margin7367" valign="top" style="padding: 5px;" class=""><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 14px; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: initial !important;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr id="layout-row7367" class="layout-row layout style7367 _widget_text widget" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td id="layout-row-padding7367" valign="top" style="padding: 5px;" class=""><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 14px; min-width: 100%;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td id="text_div6188" class="td_text td_block" valign="top" align="left" width="630" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; color: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1; text-decoration: inherit; font-family: Arial;"><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" class=""><a href="https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.acemlna.com/lt.php?s=2e2280795897875748e3ae9aec307c33&i=357A368A1A7020" data-ac-default-color="1" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; color: rgb(8, 75, 138); text-decoration: underline; f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t-style: normal; font-weight: 500; font-family: arial; text-align: start;" class="">Hitler’s followers were not just everyday citizens responding to promises of a better life but government officials, judicial pooh bahs, university professors, fellow politicians, media experts, business men and industrialists who abandoned all conscience to participate in his cult.</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr class=""><td id="layout-row-margin7388" valign="top" style="padding: 5px;" class=""><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 14px; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: initial !important;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr id="layout-row7388" class="layout-row _widget_text layout style7388 widget" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td id="layout-row-padding7388" valign="top" style="padding: 5px;" class=""><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 14px; min-width: 100%;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td id="text_div6207" class="td_text td_block" valign="top" align="left" width="630" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; color: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.45; text-decoration: inherit; font-family: Arial;"><div class="" data-line-height="1.45" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.45;"><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 500; text-align: start;" class="">One person described such a movement as a cult of persons “hopelessly addicted to power.”  Yes, power was everything so it took precedence over everything else.  Truly an idolatrous goings on.  Power was god and Hitler cultists worshipped at the feet of the fuhrer who could do no wrong.</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr id="layout-row7413" class="layout-row  layout clear-this"><td id="layout-row-padding7413" valign="top" class=""><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 14px; min-width: 100%;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td id="layout_table_54556751093ebe7145cf0955bd60bf612dcdd002" valign="top" width="325" class=""><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="layout-table layout " width="325" style="font-size: 14px; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td id="layout-row-margin7383" valign="top" style="padding: 5px;" class=""><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 14px; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: initial !important;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr id="layout-row7383" class="layout-row layout style7383 _widget_text widget" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td id="layout-row-padding7383" valign="top" style="padding: 5px;" class=""><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 14px; min-width: 100%;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td id="text_div6203" class="td_text td_block" valign="top" align="left" width="305" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; color: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.65; text-decoration: inherit; font-family: Arial;"><div class="" data-line-height="1.65" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.65;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 500; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; font-family: arial; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 500;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: start; font-family: arial; font-weight: 400; font-size: 18px;"><span class="" style="color: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; font-family: arial;"><span class="" style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: 500; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; text-align: start; margin: 0px;">One fights evil with all that one has at one’s disposal.  This includes moral outrage and the energy that accompanies such outrage—the energy to resist and to gather allies and to strategize and to interfere with lies and resentments that are being preached.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br class=""></span></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td id="layout_table_09979a8fe30eb3242f6852bcb43b59c9bb6928bd" valign="top" width="325" class=""><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="layout-table layout " width="325" style="font-size: 14px; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td id="layout-row-margin7412" valign="top" class=""><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding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cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 14px; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: initial !important;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr id="layout-row7418" class="layout-row style7418 layout _widget_text widget" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td id="layout-row-padding7418" valign="top" style="padding: 5px;" class=""><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 14px; min-width: 100%;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td id="text_div6229" class="td_text td_block" valign="top" align="left" width="305" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; color: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1; text-decoration: inherit; font-family: Arial;"><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 500; font-family: arial;" class=""><span class="" style="color: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; margin: 0px;">Scanned: November 17, 2005 Howard Thurman Dean Thurman @ Marsh Chapel March 6, 1959 Historical. Photo originally posted to Boston University’s School of Theology,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.acemlna.com/lt.php?s=2e2280795897875748e3ae9aec307c33&i=357A368A1A7056" data-ac-default-color="1" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; color: rgb(8, 75, 138); text-decoration: underline; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" class=""><span style="font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;" class="">Howard Thurman Papers Project</span></a>.</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td id="layout_table_188865fa196632700572691b634f9014a0ed54a6" valign="top" width="325" class=""><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="layout-table layout " width="325" style="font-size: 14px; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td id="layout-row-margin7403" valign="top" style="padding: 5px;" class=""><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 14px; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: initial !important;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr id="layout-row7403" class="layout-row style7403 layout _widget_text widget" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td id="layout-row-padding7403" valign="top" style="padding: 5px;" class=""><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 14px; min-width: 100%;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td id="text_div6218" class="td_text td_block" valign="top" align="left" width="305" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; color: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.65; text-decoration: inherit; font-family: Arial;"><div class="" data-line-height="1.65" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.65;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 500; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><strong class="" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700;">We want to meditate on—and execute—ways out of evil.  </strong>We have done this frequently in our Meditations by sharing stories about people and movements who have demonstrated the courage and vision to bring good into the world. Among those people and movements are the mystics.  </div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr class=""><td id="layout-row-margin7419" valign="top" style="padding: 5px;" class=""><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 14px; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: initial !important;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr id="layout-row7419" class="layout-row style7419 layout _widget_text widget" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td id="layout-row-padding7419" valign="top" style="padding: 5px;" class=""><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 14px; min-width: 100%;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td id="text_div6230" class="td_text td_block" valign="top" align="left" width="630" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; color: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.45; text-decoration: inherit; font-family: Arial;"><div data-line-height="1.45" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.45; font-size: 18px; font-family: arial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: 500; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; font-family: arial; font-style: normal;" class="">Consider Howard Thurman, for example, who was so instrumental as a visionary behind the civil right movement.  Among his profound que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