BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Contemplative Outreach Birmingham announces their 20th Annual Conference Saturday, March 9, 2013, at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Birmingham. Gray Matthews, Ph.D., a former ...
“The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation” by Thomas Merton (HarperSanFrancisco, $22.95, 170 pp.) The final work of one of Christianity’s foremost thinkers stands as a profound textbook on the ...
What about the life a monk could appeal to a woman who lived through the 20th century’s most significant events? Subjects like spirituality and the interior life remain elusive by nature, but Merton’s ...
During his historic address to a joint session of Congress in 2015, Pope Francis raised up four virtuous Americans as models of citizenship: Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Dorothy Day and ...
The Thomas Merton Contemplative Initiative invites you to engage in A Vow of Conversation on things that matter with Sufi scholar Dr. Rachana Umashankar and Merton scholar Dr. Kathleen Deignan, CND, ...
Thomas Merton, the great twentieth-century American writer on spirituality, began his book New Seeds of Contemplation (1961, New Directions) with the suggestion that contemplation is, "The highest ...
Famed Trappist monk Thomas Merton corresponded with an extraordinary range of writers, among them Evelyn Waugh, Henry Miller, Jacques Maritain, Walker Percy and ...
The Seven Storey Mountain, which recounts Thomas Merton's spiritual odyssey from disbelief to faith, opens: "On the last day of January 1915, in a year of a great war, and down in the shadow of some ...
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