The late Thomas Merton, an author and pioneer of interfaith dialogue, gave his last public presentations in the United States in 1968 at the Redwoods Monastery in the Southern Humboldt community of ...
WOSU Public Media: Columbus composer Brian Harnetty accompanies the wisdom of Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton in front of his hermitage at the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani Merton made the recordings in a small hermitage in the hills of Kentucky in 1967. As a Trappist monk, spiritual writer, ...
Lexington Herald Leader: A Lexington author tells the story of the other Merton—Thomas’ brother | Opinion
Few if any 20th-century Roman Catholics had a greater impact on Christian spirituality than Thomas Merton, the iconic Trappist monk, mystic and ecumenist. He lived at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Nelson ...
A Lexington author tells the story of the other Merton—Thomas’ brother | Opinion
America Magazine: Thomas Merton’s editor on the surprise success of ‘The Seven Storey Mountain’
Thomas Merton’s autobiography was published in October 1948, but he had begun to write it in 1944, as he reveals in his journal. A day or so after Pearl Harbor, at age 26, he had journeyed as a ...
Thomas Merton’s editor on the surprise success of ‘The Seven Storey Mountain’
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: New book tells story of other Merton — Thomas’ brother
In an age of unrest and distraction, Thomas Merton poses many challenges to contemporary culture, inviting a deeper sense of the human, a broadened grasp of catholicity, and a way of communal ...
The Washington Post: What Pope Francis can teach the US Catholic Church about Thomas Merton (COMMENTARY)