This autobiography follows controversial theologian Matthew Fox’s journey from his childhood up to his expulsion from the Dominican Order by Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) and his becoming an Episcopal priest to work with youth in reinventing forms of worship, specifically bringing rave (dance and dj’s and multi media) into the Western Liturgy. Matthew Fox, Catholic theologian and priest who was dismissed by the Dominican Order on the orders of Cardinal Ratzinger, is perhaps the foremost articulator of creation spirituality. In this book he offers a meditative, almost conversational autobiography. It's the story of a vital and iconoclastic man who still loves his former church and who desperately wanted, while he was still part of it, to revitalize it in order to better address the spiritual challenges of post-modernity. Fox feels strongly that both the planet and the Church stand at an epochal crossroads, that one culture is dying as another struggles to be born. As he describes his growing differences with Rome, he writes movingly of the community of like-minded or receptive people that surrounded and sustained him, exhibiting the best Christian tradition of discipleship and critical inquiry. Despite their efforts and his own struggle to maintain both his integrity of thought and his vows of obedience to his Dominican order, Fox was first silenced and then expelled. He has, since 1994, found an ecclesial home as an Episcopal priest. “This highly charged autobiography will stand as a lasting memorial to the difficulty of maintaining certain articles of faith and dogma at a time of shifting cultural paradigms.” --San Francisco Chronicle; “Likely to become a classic.” –Publishers Weekly; “Traditionally, when big government in the church tries to silence a good soul, it indicates that that soul is often far ahead of the times. Matthew Fox is such a person. He writes simply, powerfully, about his life as a visionary. He continues now, as before, to give out the twenty first-century keys to the kingdom.” --Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., author of Women Who Run With the Wolves and director of a Sociedad de Nuestra Senora, Guadalupe.