Why do so many Catholics still distrust Thomas Merton Forty years ago today Thomas Merton a Trappist monk and perhaps the most popular American Catholic writer in history stepped out of a bathroom shower during a visit to Bangkok Slipping on the wet floor he grabbed a poorly wired fan for supp
Thomas Merton
Posted inFaith, In All Things
Karl Barth, Thomas Merton: 40 Years Later
nbsp Cambridge MA I am in the midst of my ldquo Krsna in Advent rdquo series mdash nbsp the first entry posted a few days ago the next to come in a few days mdash but I cannot help but interrupt to remember two great Christian intellectuals and writers who died forty years ago on Decembe
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Why Some Look Up to Planets and Heroes: From 1963
To mark what would have been Thomas Merton’s 99th birthday, a reflection and poem from the great spiritual writer that appeared in our pages in 1963.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Mindful Monks
Robert King a retired philosophy and religion professor and academic dean, discovered only late in his academic career the contemplative dimension of Christianity
Posted inFaith
What Thomas Merton taught me about forming young Catholics’ imaginations
“The world is charged with the grandeur of God,” wrote the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. Merton’s lesson is, “Pay attention, you might miss it.”