Matthew Fox - Confessions, Revised and Updated: The Making of a Postdenominational Priest

How does one acknowledge those, living and dead, friend and enemy, who form one and help to delineate one? Acknowledgments for the stories in this book extend to all those mentioned herein and many not mentioned due to lack of space. My dedication of this book to family members is key, though I must include my aunts and uncles too, especially Doris and George Carland and Helen and Harry Bryans, and my grandparents. I also extend gratitude toward my many mentors mentioned and not mentioned in the text; students, especially though not exclusively those at ICCS; fellow faculty members and administrators where I have taught; and monks, sisters, and fellow activists. A special kudo to Marlene Denardo, Robert Rice and M. C. Richards, Adrianna Diaz and Jeremy Taylor, and all of the ICCS faculty. All the artists and poets who have whetted my soul. And to Tom Grady of HarperSanFrancisco, who first proposed the idea of this book, and to Caroline Pincus with Sue White and Priscilla Stuckey, my editors. And to Dominican brothers and sisters in Holland who supported me and to those individual Dominicans in America who know who they are and who were not so threatened by Romes attacks as to give up altogether on our solidarity, thank you! To my helpers Peter Farriday and Tom Barnes and Cliff Atkinson. To my Anglican brothers and sisters, with special mention to Bishop William Swing and Bishop Marc Andrus. And to Ben and Javier and Ron and other friends who have supported me along the way. To Mel Bricker for his stalwart gathering of permissions for new and old citations. To Andrew Harvey and the team at North Atlantic Books who have supported the idea to bring the autobiography up to date, including Doug Reil, Louis Swaim, and Lauren Harrison. A hearty thank you to Phila Hoopes for her work on my behalf with social media. And to Aaron Stern and the Academy of the Love of Learning in Santa Fe who have been so supportive and have rendered my work with Yellawe and my writing possible. To Ted Richards for his leadership in alternative education for inner city youth and to Adam Bucko for his inspiring work with street youth and to Broderick Rodell and Ambessa Contave for their dedication to creative education for the young through their work with Yellawe. To my two vice presidents at the University of Creation Spirituality, Dr. Dorsey Blake and Dr. Mary Ford Grabowski; and the director along with Dr. Mel Bricker of the D Min program, Dr. Carol Vaccariello; and to all those contributing so generously to the Creation Spirituality Communities group, many of whom are graduates of our UCS program. And to my coworkers with the Cosmic Mass including Director Skylar Wilson and Assistant Director Mariko Pitts as well as Jahan Khamsehzadeh. And a special shout out to Fred Matser and Anita Roddick for their support for the University of Creation Spirituality and for my colleagues and students who made it so special an experiment with a special kudo to friend, poet and indomitable teacher, potter and lover of life, M. C. Richards. And to John Conger for his wise listening and coaching in hours of fruitful exchange of my spiritual journey. And to Steven Herrmann for lively intellectual gifting. And to Thomas Merton for setting me on a journey full of surprises and depth encounters that began with reading him over sixty years ago but reached a turning point when he directed me to go to Paris to study spirituality.

To my brothers and sisters, Tom, Nat, Terry, Roberta, Michael, and Tricia, in gratitude for their solidarity and groundedness through many years of surprises

And to my parents, Beatrice and George Fox, for their many gifts of life