Page Text: About the Daily Meditations Team
Dennis Edwards
As Executive Assistant to Matthew Fox For the past 17 years and Executive Director of Friends of Creation Spirituality and Matthew Fox Legacy Project, Dennis manages the day to day details of a multi dimensional non-profit organization drawing from skills acquired with over 30 years experience in the field. In 2006 he received an MA in Creation Spirituality from the University of Creation Spirituality/Naropa.
Phila Hoopes
Daily Meditations blog coordinator and art curator, Phila is a freelance copywriter and web-worker for green business, Reiki master practitioner, and permaculture student. She studied remotely with Matthew Fox while pursuing her MA in Applied Healing Arts through the Maryland University of Integrative Health, and has supported his work and other Creation Spirituality initiatives with a variety of online services since 2011 through her practice, Your Words’ Worth .
Ellen Kennedy
is a Sacred Circle Dance Teacher who embodies the principles of Creation Spirituality in dance and teaches others to do the same. Trained and certified at The Findhorn Foundation, Scotland she has led retreats, workshops and Sacred Circle Dance Pilgrimages for Peace in the US, Mexico, Scotland, Ireland, Iceland, S. Korea, Cuba and at the Syrian border. She founded the Mt. Holyoke College Sacred Circle Dance Troupe and has numerous skills from a former career in marketing and advertising. Her proposal to Matthew Fox was the spark that ignited these daily meditations.
Rev. Jerry Maynard
Rev. Jerry Maynard is The People’s Priest. He shows up in the world as a spiritual renegade and social revolutionary with a ministry of protest, praise, and community organizing in Houston, TX. Rev. Jerry is a leader in a variety of movements, teaches the spirituality of nonviolence, works on foreign and domestic issues, and is the Founding Pastor of The People’s Church an online community of Sacred Activists from a variety of spiritual traditions. The People’s Priest is active on social media as a DigiMinistry curator. For more info, please visit revjerrymaynard.org
Cynthia Greb
Cynthia Greb is the Spiritual Director at Circle of Miracles. A former hospice chaplain, an artist, and a big dreamer, Cynthia is also the author of Grief and Grace: Stories at the Intersection of Life and Death. Cynthia is working on her next book about the power of pilgrimage.
A graduate of the University of Creation Spirituality, she is honored to serve on the Daily Meditation team.
Richard Reich-Kuykendall
Richard Reich D. Min. is an ordained United Church of Christ minister and graduate of Matthew Fox’s University of Creation Spirituality (1999). Reich is also the founder of “Spiritwind” a Creation Spirituality Community in the tradition of ONE RIVER, MANY WELLS and is the author of more than 10 books, his most recent is titled, The Way of the Earth.
Antonia Marrero
Antonia is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker who’s taught at Columbia University’s Double Discovery Program, Hostos-Lincoln Academy, Marymount Manhattan College and CUNY. She’s collaborating with GRAMMY-winner/Afro-Latin Jazz Alliance founder, Arturo O’Farrill, in producing “Pamina’s Magic Flute,” a cinematic jazz operetta inspired by Mozart’s music and Matthew Fox’s theology. Antonia organizes tenant advocacy and lives with her husband, Instagram photographer @Brownsvillain.
Brian Nguyen
is the design mind behind the daily meditations blog. With over a decade of experience as a web, motion, and graphic designer, Brian ensures that the experience of reading this blog marries with the contemplative nature of our meditations.
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