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Tuesdays with Merton PodcastJudith Valente - In Their Own Words: The Monks Who Knew Merton
JUDITH VALENTE - In Their Own Words: The Monks Who Knew Merton.
There are only a few remaining monks at the Abbey of Gethsemani who knew Thomas Merton personally. One is now 103 years old. ITMS President (2023-2025) Judith Valente spent time interviewing those monks about their encounters with Merton. Their memories are vivid and entertaining. Not surprisingly, Merton remains a complex figure for many of them. They talk frankly about his relationship with M. and his fierce opposition to the abbey's mail order businesses, but also his ability to relate to struggling monks, his humor, and his ca...
2025-12-101h 02Tuesdays with Merton PodcastHarley Matthews - Merton and the Protestant Tradition
In the nineteen sixties, finding a cloistered monk in Protestant spaces was unexpected. We will look at Merton's influence in Protestant culture, then extend our exploration into other unexpected and marginal places, including punk and hardcore engagements with Merton, and imagining Merton as an urban character. Viewing Merton through an alternative lens can encourage us to see Merton reaching further than we might expect or even be comfortable with.
Harley Dean Mathews is associate pastor of First United Methodist Church in Victoria, Texas. Harley is married to Amanda Mathews, an artist. Harley has a background...
2025-11-141h 13Tuesdays with Merton PodcastVincent Pizzuto - Delicious Tranquility: Near Death Experiences and the Quietud Sabrosa
In the fifty years since Dr. Raymond Moody’s 1975 landmark publication, Life After Life, modern research into the phenomena of Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) and related studies in consciousness have flourished. Among the cross-disciplinary approaches to this burgeoning field, there is an unnamed question emerging: At what point do we shift from an emphasis on seeking scientific evidence in support of the veracity of NDEs to an exploration of whether NDEs might themselves contribute to a deeper understanding of perennial spiritual experience? While clearly this will not be a uniform development across disciplines, my presentation seeks to make this le...
2025-10-201h 30Tuesdays with Merton PodcastRyan Bell - Pilgrims in a Polarized Church: Thomas Merton and Raymond HunthausenIn this presentation, Ryan Bell explores how Thomas Merton had a profound influence on the life of Raymond Hunthausen, the high-profile, boundary-pushing Archbishop of Seattle from 1975 to 1991. While the two scions of the post-Vatican II American Catholic Church never met, Merton’s writings on peace and justice spurred Hunthausen to begin a series of headline- grabbing protests against nuclear arms, racism, and sexism. Ryan outlines how Merton’s influence on Hunthausen turned the archbishop into a modern prophet within an increasingly polarized American Catholic Church.
Ryan Bell is a recent graduate of the University of Denv...
2025-09-1058 minTuesdays with Merton PodcastEstevan Rael-Gálvez with Nicki Gonzales - Native Bound-Unbound: A Pilgrimage through SilenceThe following is a plenary presentation from the 19th General Meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society, Regis University, Denver, Colorado, delivered on June 21, 2025.
Estevan Rael-Gálvez is the director of Native Bound-Unbound, a Mellon Foundation sponsored digital humanities project centered on the millions of indigenous people whose lives were and have been shaped by enslavement. Dr. Rael-Gálvez, anthropologist, historian, and Indigenous slavery scholar, has served as the state historian of New Mexico, the executive director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center, and senior vice president of historic sites at the National Trust for Hi...
2025-07-281h 11Tuesdays with Merton PodcastSusan Reynolds - Terrain of Memory: Mertonian Reflections of Spirit, Place and Violence in the Shadow of the Front RangeThe following is a plenary presentation from the 19th General Meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society, Regis University, Denver, Colorado, delivered on June 20, 2025.
Susan Reynolds is a theologian and ethnographer whose first book, People Get Ready, received the 2024 Best Book Award by the College Theology Society.
Reynolds is an assistant professor of Catholic Studies at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, GA, and is a contributing writer for Commonweal magazine. Originally from Denver, CO, she writes often on themes of ritual, community, and place.
2025-07-221h 07Tuesdays with Merton PodcastEd Sellner - Kindred Spirits: Thomas Merton, Jack Kerouac, and Zen
This talk is about two men of the twentieth century, giants in their own right, the monk Thomas Merton and the Beat writer Jack Kerouac who as Roman Catholics studied Zen Buddhism. Both had a great deal common: Celtic ancestry, students at Columbia University, grounded in a spirituality of nature and a love of animals that reflected their respect for all sensate creatures. Both too had a dark side, prone to depression, struggling with sanity, even suicide at times. This talk discusses their similarities and differences, focusing upon their satori experiences, a Zen term for a...
2025-05-1458 minTuesdays with Merton PodcastBecky McIntyre and Sarah Fuller - Merton as Visual Artist and Creating Socially Conscious Art in the 21st Century
Becky McIntyre and Sarah Fuller discuss their art and experiences as artists working in religious and social justice movements, particularly the Catholic Worker movement. They will discuss intersections of faith, resistance, creativity and justice in their own life histories and artistic practices. They discuss examples of their art, and discuss ways in which the art and work of Thomas Merton touches on their own artistic practices.
Becky McIntyre is a community artist, printmaker, and muralist in Philadelphia, currently living as an artist in residence at St. Raphaela Center in Haverford, PA. She regularly creates the c...
2025-04-091h 16Tuesdays with Merton PodcastJames Finley - Being A Healing Presence in a Wounded and Traumatized WorldAnnual Fourth & Walnut Lecture, 2025
with James Finley
Being A Healing Presence in a Wounded & Traumatized World
James Finley Ph.D. lived as a monk at the cloistered Trappist monastery of the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, where the world-renowned monk and author, Thomas Merton, was his spiritual director.
James Finley leads retreats and workshops throughout the United States and Canada, attracting men and women from all religious traditions who seek to live a contemplative way of life in the midst of today's busy world. He is also a clinical psychologist in p...
2025-03-1944 minTuesdays with Merton PodcastRose Marie Berger - The Church has No Weapons: Merton's Influence on Catholic NonviolenceIn this presentation to celebrate the launch of the Catholic Institute for Nonviolence in Rome in September 2024, Sojourners senior editor Rose Marie Berger reflects on what led up to the launch of the Institute, what moral and theological questions top the Institute's research agenda, and what comes next for this tremendous new resource available to the global Church and beyond. Merton's own thinking and prayer on war and peace opened the way for the maturing of Catholic nonviolence as it is understood today. The launch of the Catholic Institute for Nonviolence is another dynamic experiment in Merton's thoughts on how t...
2025-02-121h 13Tuesdays with Merton PodcastAbbi Fraser - Merton in the Maryhouse KitchenAn excerpt from Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander lives as permanently as can be on the door entering the dining room in Maryhouse, one of the New York Catholic Worker houses of hospitality. In this personal talk, I hope to explore what it meant to read Merton in the context of living at a Catholic Worker house, and how I believe the Worker and Merton hold the tension of guilt and faithful living in a world inundated with violence.
Abbi Fraser, the child of two Protestant pastors, got her BA in Public Affairs from UCLA and instantly do...
2025-01-161h 13Tuesdays with Merton PodcastFr. William Hart McNichols & Christopher Pramuk - Offering Christ to a Broken World: Merton’s Advent Tidings of Great Joy
In this presentation on the anniversary of Thomas Merton’s death, iconographer Fr. Bill McNichols and theologian Christopher Pramuk reflect on the power of sacred art to quicken the hope of Advent in our hearts, and to bring the creativity and courage of love into “this demented inn,” where Christ “has come uninvited.” Their book together, All My Eyes See: The Artistic Vocation of Fr. William Hart McNichols, has been described as “incandescent,” an “intimate conversation between two soul friends,” which “not only preserves the legacy of a hidden master, but also contributes to the awakening of the world.”
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2024-12-111h 12Tuesdays with Merton PodcastSteven P. Millies - Merton with Miłosz and Pasternak: Artistic Avenues of Faithful Resistance in Authoritarian Times
The consistent ethic of life is a fully Catholic engagement with the difficult challenges that conscience encounters in our time. Now in this challenging, divided moment is the right time to re-discover the consistent ethic and adopt an attitude that calls us to partisans for life beyond our partisanship.
Steven P. Millies is professor of public theology and director of The Bernardin Center at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. His most recent books include A Consistent Ethic of Life: Navigating Catholic Engagement with U.S. Politics and Good Intentions: A History of Catholic Voters’ Road from Roe to Trump (Lit...
2024-11-131h 05Tuesdays with Merton PodcastGray Matthews - Contemplative Mayhem
Gray Matthews, assistant professor of Communication at the University of Memphis, Memphis TN, has served the International Thomas Merton Society as a member of the Board, co-editor of The Merton Annual, coordinator of the 2007 ITMS conference, as well as coordinator of the Memphis ITMS Chapter since 2001. Gray has been a frequent presenter at ITMS conferences and recently authored an exploratory essay on Merton and decolonial issues of contemplative concern.
This Presentation is a thought experiment in deep responsiveness. The question of contemplation—in a world of action that is deteriorating into a frantic order...
2024-10-101h 30Tuesdays with Merton PodcastPycior, Julie Leininger - Despite Everything and Because Everything Is at Stake: Bearing Witness with the Help of Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day
Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day championed social justice witness informed by deep contemplative practice. Their powerful example amid the crises of the 1960s can provide us with insights as we seek to respond with integrity to today’s seemingly unprecedented crises. Julie Leininger Pycior will invite your reflections on these themes as revealed in her prize-winning book Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, and the Greatest Commandment: Radical Love in Times of Crisis. She also will share how research for this book was instrumental in Pope Francis choosing Merton and Day as the two spiritual figures to spotlight in his historic addr...
2024-09-1257 minTuesdays with Merton PodcastDavid Odorisio - Lessons from the Lost Coast: Exploring Thomas Merton in California
David M. Odorisio, PhD, is Co-Chair and Associate Core Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA. David received his MA in the History of Christian Spirituality from Saint John's University, School of Theology-Seminary (Collegeville, MN), and his PhD in East-West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (San Francisco, CA). David is editor of Thomas Merton in California: The Redwoods Conferences and Letters (Liturgical Press, 2024), and Merton & Hinduism: The Yoga of the Heart (Fons Vitae, 2021) and has published in The Merton Seasonal and The Merton Annual.
In 1968, Thomas Merton offered several conferences at Our Lady of the Redwoo...
2024-05-151h 17Tuesdays with Merton PodcastRobert Ellsberg - 'It's the Direction that Matters': How Sister Wendy Beckett Changed Her Mind about Merton
During the last three years of her life, Sr. Wendy Becket, an English hermit and art historian, shared an intimate, daily correspondence, largely about holiness and the life of faith. Throughout, the figure of Thomas Merton loomed large. Sr. Wendy held ambivalent feelings on the subject of Merton. Yet in the course of our correspondence she came to a startling reassessment, comparable in some ways to Merton’s own “awakening from a dream of separateness.”
Robert Ellsberg is the long-time publisher of Orbis books. He is the author of many books on saints and holiness, includin...
2024-04-111h 13Tuesdays with Merton PodcastSophfronia Scott - Courageous Conversations on Death with Thomas MertonThomas Merton’s death in 1968 at the age of just 53 was tragic and sudden, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that he was unprepared for the end. What does it mean to be prepared? Sophfronia will examine Merton’s writings to see how he can take us beyond society’s “having one’s affairs in order” way of thinking about death to a way of living as a full expression of the life in abundance that Christ offers in the New Testament.
Sophfronia Scott is a novelist, essayist, and contemplative thinker whose book The Seeker and the Monk: Everyday Conversa...
2024-03-141h 05Tuesdays with Merton PodcastLeslye Colvin - Merton: An Invitation to Unbind Him and Ourselves
Leslye Colvin weaves a tapestry that provides a fresh perspective of Thomas Merton interwoven with glimpses of her journey as a child of the Civil Rights Movement era, and the systems that bind us all.
Leslye Colvin is a writer, spiritual companion, and contemplative activist. She has extensive experience in promoting mission and expanding outreach of a variety of sectors including faith-based non profit, government, corporate, and academia. Inspired by the Catholic social justice tradition, she is passionate about encouraging diversity of thought especially as it relates to those often marginalized within the community.
2024-02-141h 16Tuesdays with Merton PodcastAnne Pearson - White Man Writing on Racism: Thomas Merton and ”Letters to a White Liberal”
Anne Pearson is a graduate of Bellarmine University, where she earned a degree in political science and psychology and studied the encroachment of prisons into the public school system through disciplinary alternative schools. While at Bellarmine, she completed a thesis on Thomas Merton and racism and has since presented her research at multiple national and international conferences and as a TEDx talk. She currently lives in Washington, DC where she provides resources to graduate nursing students across the country and advocates for more equitable higher education.
Thomas Merton's writings on racism, most prominently those found in his "Le...
2024-01-101h 11Tuesdays with Merton PodcastIlia Delio - Merton’s Christophany and the Second Axial MonkThomas Merton’s epiphany on the corner of Fourth and Walnut Streets was a significant breakthrough into Christ consciousness and the opening up of what Raimon Panikkar calls, “Christophany.” This new consciousness propelled an inversion of Merton’s monastic life toward ever deepening relationships with a world of complexity. Relying on insights from Carl Jung, Raimon Panikkar and Teilhard de Chardin, I will explore Merton’s Christophany as a radical theology, a mutational disruption of the Neoplatonic quest, and the ushering in of a new monastic consciousness reflective of the second axial age, marked by the hyperpersonal monk of planetary co...
2023-11-211h 13Tuesdays with Merton PodcastBONUS episode, Shannen Dee Williams - America’s Real Sister Act: Illuminating the Hidden History of Black Catholic Nuns in the African American Freedom Struggle
Dr. Shannen Dee Williams is Associate Professor of History at the University of Dayton. She is an award-winning scholar of the African American experience and Black Catholicism with research and teaching specializations in women's, religious, and Black freedom movement history. Dr. Williams holds a B.A. in history with magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors from Agnes Scott College, a M.A. in Afro-American studies from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Ph.D. in history from Rutgers University. The first Black woman elected to the Executive Council of the American Catholic Historical Association, Dr. Williams...
2023-10-231h 01Tuesdays with Merton PodcastCassidy Hall - Queering Thomas Merton
Cassidy S. Hall (She/Her), MA, MDIV, MTS, is an author, award-winning filmmaker, podcaster, and leading voice in contemplative spirituality. She is the cohost of the Encountering Silence podcast and the creator of the Contemplating Now and Queering Contemplation podcasts. Her films include In Pursuit of Silence and Day of a Stranger. Cassidy is widely published and currently resides in Indianapolis, where she is studying for her DMin degree.
What Would it Look Like to Queer Thomas Merton? What is queer theory and queer theology and how can they be used as a lens to better understand Merton—and...
2023-10-111h 04Tuesdays with Merton PodcastBONUS episode, Sophia Park - Dancing with Thomas Merton in the BorderlandThomas Merton—an eternal seeker, dislocated immigrant, and sojourner—left his mark on an Asian woman who was seeking a spiritual adventure. In many borderlands, the virgin points, Merton's hidden yet honest struggle inspire a deep connection with the immigrant woman in exile. Through a personal narrative of sojourning, an emphasis begins to manifest that her religious life began in Korea and found home in the US, contrasting Merton's journey of finding a home in Asia. Dancing with Thomas Merton led the woman to see her true self, beyond the East and West. Transformation occurs at the borderland, a spac...
2023-09-2550 minTuesdays with Merton PodcastBONUS episode, Maria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer - Women in Merton’s Life: Notes on His Experience with the FeminineThomas Merton had, in his life, important experiences with women. His life and writings are impregnated by those feminine presences and influences who provoked strong reactions and emotions in his heart and mind. We will examine some aspects of his experience with the feminine, including his mother's premature death, the multiple girlfriends of his youth (whose names he would not even remember), as well as some friendships which were important in his Christian journey, such as Naomi Burton, Dorothy Day, and Catherine de Hueck. Merton's life as a monk was also configured by important feminine spiritual figures, including Mary...
2023-09-1858 minTuesdays with Merton PodcastMark C. Meade - The Seven Storey Mountain at Seventy-Five: Classic or Déclassé?
The Seven Storey Mountain has reached another milestone. How has Merton’s autobiography fared in the first quarter of the 21st century? Are Merton’s words now less central to the American religious experience, or does his story of spiritual longing resonate with people of our time in the U.S. and the world?
Mark C. Meade is the Assistant Director of the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY. The year 2023 marks his 20th year at the Merton Center. He is a past president of the International Thomas Merton Society. He has presen...
2023-09-131h 01Tuesdays with Merton PodcastBONUS episode: Christopher Pramuk’s Presidential Address for Sophia Comes Forth Reaching, the 18th General Meeting of the ITMS
INTERNATIONAL THOMAS MERTON SOCIETY, Presidential Address for "Sophia Comes Forth Reaching": the 18th General Meeting of the ITMS.
Dr. Christopher Pramuk is Regis University Chair of Ignatian Thought and President of the International Thomas Merton Society. He is the author of six books, including two award-winning studies of the famed Catholic monk and spiritual writer Thomas Merton, as well as, as well as Hope Sings, So Beautiful: Graced Encounters Across the Color Line, a meditation on race relations in society and church. Chris’s latest book, The Artist Alive: Explorations in Music, Art, and Theology, dra...
2023-08-2829 minTuesdays with Merton PodcastJim Robinson - Spirituality Sustainability and Social Justice: Embodying “Integral Ecology” with Thomas Merton and Rosemary Radford Ruether
From August 12, 1966 through February 18, 1968, Thomas Merton and Rosemary Radford Ruether engaged in a vibrant exchange of nearly 40 letters. In this talk, Robinson builds on this existing exchange by placing passages from Merton’s and Ruether’s broader bodies of work into conversation. He specifically lifts up insights from Merton and Ruether that can aid us in imagining and incarnating sustainable lives, communities, and societies that are grounded in spirituality and committed to social justice. In the process, he considers the links between Merton’s insights, Ruether’s insights, and Pope Francis’s promotion of an “integral ecolo...
2023-05-101h 00Tuesdays with Merton PodcastPatrick F. O’Connell - Beyond the Blurbs: Thomas Merton and St. Augustine
Merton's name was associated with Augustine’s from the moment his autobiography appeared with comparisons to the Confessions on its cover. This presentation considers Merton’s ongoing interactions with Augustine in published works, journals and conferences: his reliance on Augustinian distinctions between cupidity and charity, science and wisdom; his measured evaluation of Augustinian mystical teaching and formulation of just war theory; his appreciative novitiate classes on De Doctrina Christiana; to his hermitage reflections on Camus’ university thesis on Augustine. This topic provides a fascinating and illuminating window on the development of various aspects of Merton’s own spiri...
2023-04-121h 03Tuesdays with Merton PodcastMary Frohlich, RSCJ - Merton as Disciple and Re-interpreter of St. John of the Cross
When Young Thomas Merton first awakened to prayer during his student years at Columbia University, he turned to the writings of St. John of the Cross for contemplative wisdom. Near the end of his life when Merton summed up his teaching on prayer in his book Contemplative Prayer, John of the Cross appeared again as one of his most important sources. This presentation examines how Merton based his approach strongly upon some aspects of John's teaching while creatively weaving it together with a vast array of other sources.
Mary Frohlich, RSCJ, is a Professor Emerita...
2023-03-201h 01Tuesdays with Merton PodcastBob Grip - Washington Watches the Monk IIWashington Watches the Monk II is a sequel to Bob Grip’s essay in The Merton Seasonal (available at: http://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/11/11-1Grip.pdf) revealing U.S. government files about Thomas Merton. Drawing on his decades as a journalist, Grip filed Freedom of Information Act requests to various agencies to explore the federal government’s archives. He discovered everything from routine records to evidence of illegal surveillance, which he will illustrate. This session will also include comment from a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist on the surveillance of private citizens.
Bob Grip devoted his entire professional life...
2023-02-1552 minTuesdays with Merton PodcastEmma McDonald - Fully Human and Fully Real: Thomas Merton on Technology and Embodiment
Emma McDonald is a doctoral candidate in Theological Ethics at Boston College. Her research brings together qualitative methods and theological reflection to examine family formation, moral agency, and technology. She currently serves on the board of the International Thomas Merton Society.
Thomas Merton's writings reflect his skepticism in response to rapid technological progress and his deep concern that technological innovation imperils human freedom. In the decades since his death, the pace of technological development has only increased, especially in the realm of biological and medical technologies. What might Merton’s perspectives on technology, human free...
2023-01-1158 minTuesdays with Merton PodcastDavid Golemboski - People that God Has Brought together: Thomas Merton on the Hope of Political Community Beyond Nationalism
Recent Years have seen, around the world, a resurgence of political movements and leaders appealing to nationalist ideologies. These movements appeal to the desire for unity and shared identity but have an ugly history of exclusion, xenophobia, and bigotry. This presentation looks to Thomas Merton – particularly some lesser-known writings on German theologian Eberhard Arnold – for insights on the search for political community rooted not in division and exclusion but in charity and grace.
Dr. David Golemboski is an Assistant Professor of Government & International Affairs at Augustana University in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He is a form...
2022-12-161h 02Tuesdays with Merton Podcast2022-11-08 - Partners in the General Dance of the Spirit: Thomas Merton and Ilia Delio Evolving into the Grandeur of GodMerton and Delio are restless in spirit. They embraced the ongoing work of the Spirit in their lives as the evolutionary reality that continually called them out of the ordinary into the extraordinary. They accepted the awkwardness of learning how to dance in the Spirit in order to move with rhythm, rather than move through routine. To discover and live in the rhythm of the Spirit is to experience vibrancy – energy, strength and resiliency. And the Spirit invites us all: find a partner and dance.
Dr. Alan Kolp holds the Baldwin Wallace Chair in Faith & Lif...
2022-11-091h 01Tuesdays with Merton Podcast2022-10-11 - Julianne Wallace - Of Messengers of Peace: A Liturgy for Our World in the Voices of Merton and FrancisJULIANNE E. WALLACE
Of Messengers of Peace:
A Liturgy for Our World in the Voices of Merton and Francis
Please join us for a special Tuesdays with Merton as we gather to celebrate a liturgy for peace. This service, integrating music, readings, poetry, and reflections from the wisdom of Thomas Merton and St. Francis of Assisi, will provide a moment of reflection during times where peace often seems just out of reach. We invite you to be renewed and nourished in the wisdom of Merton and Francis.
Dr. Julianne E...
2022-10-121h 01Tuesdays with Merton PodcastDaniel P. Horan, OFM - True and False Love: Thomas Merton’s Spirituality of the Restless
Saint Augustine famously wrote that, "You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you." This summarizes well what we might call a spirituality of divine love and the human longing for relationship. This Tuesdays with Merton presentation explores Thomas Merton's own contributions toward developing a spirituality of love, which surfaces as a recurring theme in his writing from his earliest journal entries and books until his untimely death. Drawing on Merton's wisdom, we may come to better distinguish for ourselves between 'true' and 'false' love in our own lives a...
2022-09-141h 03Tuesdays with Merton PodcastMalgorzata Poks - The Geography of Lograire as Thomas Merton’s Ultimate Autobiography
Thomas Merton’s famous autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain (1948) was the product of a young mind devastated by ambivalence and thirsting for certainty. Twenty years after its publication Merton felt dissatisfied with that book’s moral rigidity and finality of opinions, with his evasions and half-conscious posturing. The Geography of Lograire (1969), his mature auto¬biography, enacts the master theme of Merton’s writing – the search for the authentic self – as a constant process of self-invention and renegotiation of cultural codes. In my presentation I will attempt an autoethnographic reading of The Geography of Lograire.
Dr. Malgorzata...
2022-06-1558 minTuesdays with Merton PodcastGordon Oyer - Re-Visioning a Fragmented World: Learnings through Merton’s Letters on Social Change
Beyond his prolific publications, we know Thomas Merton for his vast, diverse readings and massive output of correspondence. This session explores perspectives on peace, race, and ecology that Merton shared in his apostolate of letters. It connects these views with reading materials that informed his thought and helped address his recipients’ immediate concerns about those social dilemmas. It also highlights how his responses spoke beyond their immediate context and, as Daniel Berrigan stated, timelessly “unmasked the spiritual forces which lie under the appearances of things” and remain at play in our own time.
Gordon Oyer is the...
2022-05-1158 minTuesdays with Merton PodcastDeborah Kehoe: Thomas Merton and Southern WritingThomas Merton’s appreciation for the work of notable literary artists of the southern United States and Global South is well-documented throughout his writing. Using the broadest of criteria, Merton, by virtue of having found his only stable earthly home in the hills of Kentucky, can also be identified as a “southern writer,” in whose works evidence of a deep affinity with the voices of the expansive South can be heard. In this talk, I hope to explore some of the classical and contemporary particulars as well as the implications of a poetic and spiritual connection between Merton and other...
2022-04-1355 minTuesdays with Merton PodcastBONUS episode: Sr. Elena Malits, CSC, an interview by Jonathan MontaldoIn 2019, Jonathan Montaldo interviewed Sr. M. Elena Malits, CSC. Sr. Elena passed away on March 10, 2022. She was professor emerita in Religious Studies at Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana, and was teaching a course on film to students at the time of recording in 2019. In the area of Thomas Merton studies, she is well-known for her book The Solitary Explorer: Thomas Merton's Transforming Journey. At the time of recording of the interview, the 2021 biennial conference of the International Thomas Merton Society (ITMS) was planned for Saint Mary's College and titled, "Thou Inward Stranger." The 2021 conference was held online...
2022-03-1458 minTuesdays with Merton PodcastGregory K. Hillis: What Does Thomas Merton Have to Tell Us About Catholic Identity?
Gregory K. Hillis
What Does Thomas Merton Have to Tell Us About Catholic Identity?
March 8, 2022
Since His Death in 1968, Merton’s Catholic identity has been regularly questioned, both by those who doubt the authenticity of his Catholicism given his commitment to ecumenical and interreligious dialogue and by those who admire Merton because they see him as an aberration who rebelled against his Catholicism. In my presentation, I want to talk about how thoroughly immersed Merton was in his Catholic identity and to explore what we can learn today about wh...
2022-03-0956 minTuesdays with Merton Podcast2022-02-08 - Steven P. Millies: Our Crisis of Authority and Thomas Merton
Steven P. Millies
Our Crisis of Authority and Thomas Merton
February 8, 2022
The Polarizing Conflicts that divide the Catholic Church and social life are widely recognized but poorly understood. Thomas Merton understood what we face as a crisis of authority that has far-flung implications and whose fullest dimensions have come into view only in decades since he died. We will explore the crisis of authority as we now experience it in 2022, and we will look to Merton for wisdom about how we can resolve the crisis....
2022-02-091h 00Tuesdays with Merton PodcastDoug Hertler - Merton, You and Me: The Reality of Life in the Paschal Mystery
Surrounded by suffering and death, we believe in redemption and new life. Besieged by every form of war, we hope for peace and the coming of God’s Kingdom. Where is war present in your life? Is it only experienced “out there,” or can it be found “in here” as well? Have you identified an enemy to destroy? Are you sure that enemy is not yourself? Excerpts from Doug’s play “Merton and Me – A Living Trinity” and these words of Thomas Merton will guide our reflection: “Life and death are at war within us. As soon as we are born, we b...
2022-01-121h 04Tuesdays with Merton PodcastPaul Pearson - ”I love beer, and, by that very fact, the world.” The Humor (and Humanity) of Thomas Merton
Over the years many of Thomas Merton’s visitors and friends commented on his sense of humour. With the seriousness of his writings this humour can all too easily be overlooked. This presentation will explore Merton’s sense of humour from his pre-monastic cartoons, through his correspondence, journal entries and recordings, to the stories told by his friends and brothers. Merton’s sense of humor was a way for him to critique the world, humorously warning readers of our propensity to “wear our mitres even to bed” and reminding them of his own need for beer!
Paul M...
2021-12-151h 07Tuesdays with Merton PodcastPaul Pearson - ”I love beer, and, by that very fact, the world.” The Humor (and Humanity) of Thomas Merton
Over the years many of Thomas Merton’s visitors and friends commented on his sense of humour. With the seriousness of his writings this humour can all too easily be overlooked. This presentation will explore Merton’s sense of humour from his pre-monastic cartoons, through his correspondence, journal entries and recordings, to the stories told by his friends and brothers. Merton’s sense of humor was a way for him to critique the world, humorously warning readers of our propensity to “wear our mitres even to bed” and reminding them of his own need for beer!
Paul M...
2021-12-151h 10Tuesdays with Merton PodcastKathleen Tarr - From the Inner Frontier to the Last Frontier: Thomas Merton‘s Alaska Journey
Thomas Merton's journey to Alaska, a sojourn of seventeen days, has been rendered mostly as a "blip" within his remarkable biography. Yet the mysterious frontier suddenly surfaced to captivate him. Though short in duration, Merton's experience of the vast terrain, along with the talks he gave, were profound in spiritual insights. This presentation will explore that untold story, along with visual images of the places Merton experienced and photographic images taken by Merton himself.
Kathleen Tarr, longtime Alaskan, lives and writes under the Chugach Mountains in Anchorage. She is the founder of the Alaska Chapter...
2021-11-101h 11Tuesdays with Merton PodcastBONUS episode: Scott Russell Sanders - Reading Merton in the Rain
Scott Russell Sanders is the author of twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, including Hunting for Hope and A Conservationist Manifesto. His most recent books are Earth Works: Selected Essays (2012) and Divine Animal: A Novel (2014). A collection of his eco-science fiction stories entitled Dancing in Dreamtime will be published this fall, and a new edition of his documentary narrative, Stone Country, co-authored with photographer Jeffrey Wolin, will appear in 2017. Among his honors are the Lannan Literary Award, the John Burroughs Essay Award, the Mark Twain Award, the Cecil Woods Award for Nonfiction, the Eugene and M...
2021-10-1543 minTuesdays with Merton PodcastBONUS episode: Andrew Prevot—”Contemplation in Times of Crisis”This is a Tuesdays with Merton bonus episode from the archives of the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University. In June of 2021, Andrew Prevot, associate professor of Theology at Boston College, presented a plenary address to the 17th General Meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society. His address was titled "Contemplation in Times of Crisis."
Andrew L. Prevot, associate professor of theology at Boston College, writes and teaches at the intersection of spiritual, mystical, systematic, and liberation theologies; phenomenology; and continental philosophies of religion. Recent publications include, Theology and Race: Black and Womanist Traditions in t...
2021-09-2847 minTuesdays with Merton PodcastSophfronia Scott -The Radio of Nature: Merton‘s Tuning Into God Outdoors
On June 27, 1949, Merton was allowed, for the first time, to venture outside the Abbey of Gethsemani’s gated enclosure to walk in the woods alone. His writing and his spirituality changed forever as a result. In Thomas Merton's Gethsemani: Landscapes of Paradise, author Monica Weis notes, "Once beyond the monastery walls, Merton's heart soared." Why? Perhaps, after being doused in words for years, suddenly he could share an expansive, silent space with God and just listen. This session will explore what Merton found beneath the branches, on the hills, and in all of nature: a sense of tr...
2021-09-1558 minTuesdays with Merton PodcastJudith Valente - Why We Still Read and Need Thomas Merton: A Personal Journey
In a 1966 Commonweal article, Merton describes a time when “almost nothing is really predictable … almost everything public is patently phony, and in which there is at the same time an immense ground of personal authenticity that is right there and so obvious that … most cannot even believe that it is there." Is there a more apt description of the situation we face today? How then can we fashion a personal response to the "new normal" that is unfolding? With Merton as our navigator, is there a way to discover clarity, meaning, authenticity, and, yes, even beauty in these...
2021-08-121h 02Tuesdays with Merton PodcastBONUS epidode: David Golemboski—"Absurdity and Imagination in a Time of Upheaval"This is a Tuesdays with Merton Bonus Episode from the Archives of the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University. The following lecture was the ITMS Presidential Address of David Golemboski delivered for the 17th General Meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society, presented June 26, 2021.
David Golemboski is an Assistant Professor of Government & International Relations at Augustana University in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he writes and teaches on politics, law, and religion. His writing has appeared in academic journals such as Political Research Quarterly and Law & Philosophy, as well as in popular journals such as Commonweal and...
2021-08-0322 minTuesdays with Merton PodcastLynn R. Szabo - Poetry as Spiritual Direction with Thomas Merton and Denise Levertov
As participating readers of his powerful gift for spiritual direction, even in absentia and posthumously present, already know from their experience of his writings, the most significant forces in Thomas Merton’s own spiritual formation came from his reading and pursuing of intersections and convergences with those whose influence shaped his ever-organic selfhood and its transcendence. In many ways profound and providential resonances, his “double image,” Denise Levertov, like Merton, creates poetry which serves as spiritual direction. Their friendship creates a pas de deux for those inclined to join in “the general dance” of the Spirit in the cosmos...
2021-07-1556 minTuesdays with Merton PodcastJim Forest - An Army that Sheds No Blood: Thomas Merton’s Response to War
Clement of Alexandria, in his Protreptikos (Greek for “persuasion”), defined the Church as “an army that sheds no blood.” This phrase struck Thomas Merton with special force. It greatly distressed him that so many of his Christian contemporaries were advocates of war and even saw nuclear weapons as enjoying God’s blessing. This session will discuss Merton’s engagement in peacemaking and his close ties with Dorothy Day and others who were at war with war.
Jim Forest has spent a lifetime in the cause of peace and reconciliation. Among his personal acquaintances were some of the great...
2021-06-111h 16Tuesdays with Merton PodcastMichael W. Higgins - Merton and David Jones: Visionaries Both
Merton Was in Love With Wales — its poetry, its Celtic sensibility, its ravishing beauty and rich history. Although he came to the art of David Jones rather late in his life, he understood implicitly what Jones was doing as a visionary. There are some striking things that they were doing in parallel unaware of each other, probing the past, resurrecting forgotten cultural memories, attending to the power of ritual and sacrament, aching for unity and harmony. This session will explore some of these creative and spiritual convergences.
Dr. Michael W. Higgins is a university president, biographer, journalist, sch...
2021-05-171h 03Tuesdays with Merton PodcastKathleen Deignan - Overshadowed: Thomas Merton and the Cloud of UnknowingEvery wisdom tradition describes in its own way a cloud of unknowing that veils the utterly ineffable source and force coursing through this universe as its very life. With paradoxical lucidity on matters of darkness and unknowing, Thomas Merton shared his experience of being "overshadowed" by the Cloud of enveloping Mystery. His desire to live into its Presence has become a well-scripted legacy of post-modern spiritual emergence, written in an idiom that continues to speak cogently to the spiritual pilgrims of the second millennium. This session explores Merton's "familiarity" with the anonymous 14th century master of The Cloud, and...
2021-04-151h 02Tuesdays with Merton PodcastBONUS episode: Robert Ellsberg — "The Gate of Heaven Is Everywhere"This is a Tuesdays with Merton bonus episode from the archives of the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University. It was recorded at the 16th General Meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society at Santa Clara University in California, June 28, 2019.
Robert Ellsberg is the Publisher of Orbis Books and the author, most recently, of Blessed Among All Women: Women Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time. His other award-winning books include: A Living Gospel: Reading God’s Story in Holy Lives; Blessed Among Us: Saintly Lives for Every Day; All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Wi...
2021-04-0756 minTuesdays with Merton PodcastBryan N. Massingale - Merton, Malcolm X, and Catholic Engagement with Black Lives MatterCatholic Engagement with the Black Lives Matter movement has been hesitant, at best. At worst, Catholic leaders deride it with virulent opposition and denigration. As the Movement for Black Lives claims Malcolm X as one of their inspirations, this presentation will examine Merton's engagement with Malcolm X and radical Black thought to suggest how Catholics should engage the contemporary movement for racial justice.
Bryan N. Massingale holds the James and Nancy Buckman Chair in Applied Christian Ethics at Fordham University. A priest of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, he is a leader in Catholic theology and ethics as...
2021-03-101h 18Tuesdays with Merton PodcastBONUS episode: Anne Pearson - Thomas Merton, Black Lives Matter, and White PassivityAnne Pearson is a Junior at Bellarmine University majoring in clinical psychology and political science and minoring in criminal justice studies. In her free time, she enjoys reading, cooking and engaging in bipartisan discussion with industry executives through the National Millennial Community.
She presented “Thomas Merton, Black Lives Matter, and White Passivity” for Bellarmine University’s third annual TEDx event “What in the World?” on February 6, 2021. The video of the entire event is available at: www.bellarmine.edu/TEDx.
2021-03-0410 minTuesdays with Merton PodcastChristine M. Bochen - Created for Joy: Becoming Who We Are, TogetherDuring these turbulent, uncertain times of pandemics – corona virus, racism, unbridled individualism – and, thankfully, of moral reckoning, Thomas Merton offers a welcome and much needed message of hope. He reminds us that we are “created for JOY.” In this presentation, we will consider how Merton experienced and envisioned joy, particularly the joy of being human and the joy of friendship. For Merton, joy is both promise and vocation. How, then inspired by Merton, might we learn to delight in the “immense joy” of being human and “together . . . travel our own road to joy”?
Christine M. Bochen, professor emerita of religious...
2021-02-2159 minTuesdays with Merton PodcastBONUS episode: “The Wound and the Witness: Merton and King and the Exercise of the Prophetic”This is a Tuesdays with Merton Bonus episode from the archives of the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University.
Dr. M. Shawn Copeland, is professor emerita of systematic theology at Boston College. It was the seventh annual Thomas Merton Center Black History Month Lecture, taped live February 26, 2013 at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky.
2021-01-2249 minTuesdays with Merton PodcastJim Finley - Turning to Thomas Merton as a Trustworthy Guide in the Gentle Art of Contemplative LivingIn our time together I will share aspects of Merton’s life and teachings that had a profound and lasting effect in my own life and in my attempts to pass on to others what Thomas Merton has passed on to me. These foundational aspects of Merton’s life and teachings include our own unfolding life with all its blessings and broken edges embodying the presence of God that protects us from nothing even as it unexplainably sustains us in all things, as well as Merton’s vision of the hidden wholeness where everything connects as realized in the conte...
2021-01-141h 05Tuesdays with Merton PodcastJonathan Montaldo - Thomas Merton’s Contemplative Exercises for Entering the School of Our LivesExercises in Merton's journals can mentor our lives, producing epiphanies of the graced interdependence of all things.
Jonathan Montaldo served as director of the Merton Center and as ITMS president. He co-edited The Intimate Merton. Renditions of Merton’s writing include A Year with Thomas Merton, Dialogues with Silence, and Choosing to Love the World. A co-general editor for Fons Vitae’s Merton series, he presents Merton retreats.
2020-12-0959 minTuesdays with Merton PodcastChristopher Pramuk - What Does God's Gender Have to Do with It? Merton's Awakening to the Feminine DivineThrough image, word, and poetry, this presentation explores Merton's encounter with the biblical Wisdom tradition, the remembrance of God in a feminine key. How should the remembrance of God as Wisdom-Sophia shape the crises of our times?
Christopher Pramuk is the author of Sophia: The Hidden Christ of Thomas Merton, and At Play in Creation: Merton's Awakening to the Feminine Divine. He holds the University Chair of Ignatian Thought and Imagination at Regis University.
2020-11-121h 19Tuesdays with Merton PodcastBonnie Thurston - "...almost as if I had a sister": Thomas Merton & Etta GullickWilliam Shannon described Merton’s correspondence with Etta Gullick as “the most charming set of all,” yet, she is little known in the U.S. After briefly introducing Gullick, we will consider her exchange with Merton on contemplative prayer.
Bonnie Thurston resigned a Chair and Professorship in New Testament to live quietly in her home state of West Virginia. She has written a dissertation, over 50 essays, and books on Merton.
2020-10-141h 06Tuesdays with Merton PodcastDaniel P. Horan, OFM - Thomas Merton and Black Lives Matter: Spirituality and Racial Justice for Our TimeMerton's writings share important challenges to racism with the BLM movement to contemporary women and men of good will, especially those who are white.
Daniel Horan, OFM is the Scotus Chair of Spirituality at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and the author of 12 books including The Franciscan Heart of Thomas Merton and the forthcoming Striving Toward Authenticity: Engaging Thomas Merton on Race, Justice, and Spirituality.
2020-09-231h 19
Freedom Loves CompanyDid the CIA Murder Thomas Merton?Hugh Turley Returns to Discuss the Death of One of the 20th Century's Most Prolific and Respected Spiritual Writers (This episode would have aired Friday March 8th, 2019 but it was International Women's Day and all programming that day was hosted by women. The alternative air date for the March 8th show is Monday, March 18th, at 11:00 am Pacific. The Beloved Community will return to its regular time, every second Friday at 9 am on Friday April 12th at 9 a.m.)During the first few minutes I offer an update o...
2019-03-1856 min
Relish This Uplifting Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.Thomas Merton on William Faulkner by Thomas MertonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/435995to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Thomas Merton on William Faulkner
Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Thomas Merton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 3 hours 24 minutes
Release date: May 23, 2018
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
William Faulkner was undoubtedly one of the greatest American writers. Now, you can take Thomas Merton as your personal guide in discovering the literary and spiritual genius of Faulkner's works. Awarded both the Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes, William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897-1962) was a multi-talented writer who wrote such beloved classics as The Sound and the Fury and As I L...
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Title: Thomas Merton on William Faulkner
Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Thomas Merton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 3 hours 24 minutes
Release date: May 23, 2018
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
William Faulkner was undoubtedly one of the greatest American writers. Now, you can take Thomas Merton as your personal guide in discovering the literary and spiritual genius of Faulkner's works. Awarded both the Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes, William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897-1962) was a multi-talented writer who wrote such beloved classics as The Sound and the Fury and As I L...
2018-05-233h 24
Dive Into This Ground-Breaking Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.Thomas Merton on the Mystical Life and Martin Buber by Thomas MertonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431338to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Thomas Merton on the Mystical Life and Martin Buber
Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Thomas Merton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 0 hours 36 minutes
Release date: April 16, 2018
Genres: Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
Join Thomas Merton in exploring life's great questions. In this audio program, Merton will challenge you with questions about man's individual destiny, the human condition, prayer, and the nature of time. Originally delivered in 1965, these timeless lectures have been remastered and released as a set for your enjoyment. Delivered with wit and profound insight, these recordings will transport you into the...
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Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Thomas Merton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 0 hours 36 minutes
Release date: April 16, 2018
Genres: World Religions
Publisher's Summary:
Join Thomas Merton in exploring life's great questions. In this audio program, Merton will challenge you with questions about man's individual destiny, the human condition, prayer, and the nature of time. Originally delivered in 1965, these timeless lectures have been remastered and released as a set for your enjoyment. Delivered with wit and profound insight, these recordings will transport you into...
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Title: Thomas Merton on the Mystical Life and Martin Buber
Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Thomas Merton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 0 hours 36 minutes
Release date: April 16, 2018
Genres: World Religions
Publisher's Summary:
Join Thomas Merton in exploring life's great questions. In this audio program, Merton will challenge you with questions about man's individual destiny, the human condition, prayer, and the nature of time. Originally delivered in 1965, these timeless lectures have been remastered and released as a set for your enjoyment. Delivered with wit and profound insight, these recordings will transport you into...
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Title: Thomas Merton on the Mystical Life and Martin Buber
Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Thomas Merton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 0 hours 36 minutes
Release date: April 16, 2018
Genres: Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
Join Thomas Merton in exploring life's great questions. In this audio program, Merton will challenge you with questions about man's individual destiny, the human condition, prayer, and the nature of time. Originally delivered in 1965, these timeless lectures have been remastered and released as a set for your enjoyment. Delivered with wit and profound insight, these recordings will transport you into the...
2018-04-1636 min
Dive Into Into A High-Impact Full Audiobook Right Now.Thomas Merton on the Search for Wholeness by Thomas MertonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431339to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Thomas Merton on the Search for Wholeness
Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Thomas Merton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 2 hours 1 minute
Release date: April 13, 2018
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3
Genres: Counseling & Inspirational
Publisher's Summary:
Study a premier Jewish writer of the 20th century with one of the century's most important Catholic authors. This digitally remastered recording is part of Thomas Merton's spoken word legacy, and it presents his voice at its most spiritually edifying. Originally recorded in February of 1968 at the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, Thomas Merton on...
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Title: Thomas Merton on the Search for Wholeness
Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Thomas Merton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 2 hours 1 minute
Release date: April 13, 2018
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3
Genres: Counseling & Inspirational
Publisher's Summary:
Study a premier Jewish writer of the 20th century with one of the century's most important Catholic authors. This digitally remastered recording is part of Thomas Merton's spoken word legacy, and it presents his voice at its most spiritually edifying. Originally recorded in February of 1968 at the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, Thomas Merton on...
2018-04-132h 01
Get the Popular Titles Audiobooks in Religion & Spirituality, ChristianityThomas Merton on Prayer Audiobook by Thomas MertonPlease visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1245 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Thomas Merton on Prayer Author: Thomas Merton Narrator: Thomas Merton Format: Original Recording Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins Language: English Release date: 08-16-17 Publisher: Now You Know Media Inc. Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity Publisher's Summary: Renew your prayer life with Thomas Merton. Thomas Merton was one of the great spiritual masters: a Trappist monk, profound mystic, and brilliant writer. He inspired men and women from all walks of life with his dedication to prayer and contemplation. In 1967, near...
2017-08-1705 min
Get the Popular Titles Audiobooks in Religion & Spirituality, ChristianityWays of Prayer Audiobook by Thomas MertonPlease visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1245 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Ways of Prayer Subtitle: A Desert Father's Wisdom Author: Thomas Merton Narrator: Thomas Merton Format: Original Recording Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins Language: English Release date: 08-16-17 Publisher: Now You Know Media Inc. Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity Publisher's Summary: Join Thomas Merton in exploring one of the most influential figures in the history of spirituality. Born in the fourth century, Saint John Cassian (AD 360-435) lived when tensions between the traditional and innovative peaked. A monk and theologian...
2017-08-1605 min
Savor Your Day With A Award-Winning Full Audiobook.Thomas Merton on Pilgrimage to the Holy Land by Thomas MertonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/448026to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Thomas Merton on Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Thomas Merton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 2 hours 37 minutes
Release date: December 9, 2016
Genres: World Religions
Publisher's Summary:
As Christians, we are all called to be pilgrims, navigating the way to God. For many, this pilgrimage is figurative – a spiritual journey that deepens our awareness. Some, however, choose to undertake physical journeys to the lands most sacred to our tradition. Now, you can join Thomas Merton in learning about one such fascinating journey and the spiritual significance that pilgrimage ha...
2016-12-092h 37
Access Unmissable Full Audiobooks in Religion & Spirituality, ChristianityThomas Merton on the Contemplative Way by Thomas MertonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/435992to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Thomas Merton on the Contemplative Way
Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Thomas Merton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 2 hours 35 minutes
Release date: October 19, 2016
Genres: Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
From the best-selling author of The Seven Storey Mountain and New Seeds of Contemplation, essential listening for all spiritual seekers. Recorded almost 20 years after The Seven Storey Mountain was published, these talks showcase a mystic at the height of his wisdom. In these moving talks, Merton tackles such topics as renewal, prayer, and affirming God. The contemplative life is not limited to those in s...
2016-10-192h 35
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Title: Thomas Merton on Prayer
Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Thomas Merton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes
Release date: June 22, 2016
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Genres: World Religions
Publisher's Summary:
This set of talks recorded by Thomas Merton invites you to renew your prayer life under the guidance of a spiritual master. Thomas Merton was one of the great spiritual masters: a Trappist monk, profound mystic, and brilliant writer. He inspired men and women from all walks of life with his dedication to prayer and contemplation. In 1967, near the...
2016-06-226h 12
Listen Legally to Most Popular Full Audiobooks in Religion & Spirituality, ChristianityThomas Merton on Contemplation Audiobook by Thomas MertonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1165/to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.
Title: Thomas Merton on Contemplation
Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Fr. Anthony Ciorra PhD, Thomas Merton
Format: Original Recording
Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-23-15
Publisher: Now You Know Media, Inc
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 127 votes
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
You are invited to sit at the feet of a contemplative master. After a radical conversion experience, Thomas Merton became a Trappist monk in the Abbey of Gethsemani. At the heart of Merton's transformative conversion was contemplation. Now, this series...
2015-03-233h 50
Ignite An Mind-Blowing Full Audiobook And Elevate Your Mindset.Thomas Merton on Thomistic Thought and the Ways of God by Thomas MertonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/448079to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Thomas Merton on Thomistic Thought and the Ways of God
Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Thomas Merton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 2 hours 46 minutes
Release date: September 24, 2014
Genres: Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
Explore the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas and his followers as you listen to the voice of Thomas Merton. While he was a student at Columbia University, Thomas Merton stumbled upon The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy by renowned neo-Thomistic philosopher Étienne Gilson. An essential work on St. Thomas and other Christian philosophers, it led him down a path of spiritual s...
2014-09-242h 46Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Religion & Spirituality, ChristianityThomas Merton on Thomistic Thought and the Ways of God by Thomas MertonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/448079to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Thomas Merton on Thomistic Thought and the Ways of God
Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Thomas Merton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 2 hours 46 minutes
Release date: September 24, 2014
Genres: Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
Explore the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas and his followers as you listen to the voice of Thomas Merton. While he was a student at Columbia University, Thomas Merton stumbled upon The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy by renowned neo-Thomistic philosopher Étienne Gilson. An essential work on St. Thomas and other Christian philosophers, it led him down a path of spiritual s...
2014-09-242h 46
Grab The Uplifting Full Audiobook Experience!Thomas Merton on Sufism by Thomas MertonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/448010to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Thomas Merton on Sufism
Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Thomas Merton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 58 minutes
Release date: May 21, 2014
Genres: World Religions
Publisher's Summary:
In the 1960s, Thomas Merton, one of the twentieth century’s great mystics, encountered the ancient Islamic mystical tradition of Sufism. The result was an outpouring of mystical insight and spiritual wisdom. In these talks recorded by Merton during the last two years of his life, you will discover what first inspired Merton. The Sufi mystics have given us: one of the world’s most read...
2014-05-216h 58
Access Unmissable Full Audiobooks in Religion & Spirituality, ChristianityThomas Merton on Contemplation by Thomas MertonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/435991to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Thomas Merton on Contemplation
Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Thomas Merton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 3 hours 40 minutes
Release date: April 21, 2014
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.9 of Total 20
Ratings of Narrator: 3.75 of Total 4
Genres: Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
You are invited to sit at the feet of a contemplative master. In the words of renowned theologian Fr. Lawrence Cunningham, Thomas Merton was perhaps "the greatest spiritual writer and spiritual master of the 20th century." With a poet's sensibility, an intellectual's inquiring mind, and a prophet's courage, Merton has captured the hearts of readers...
2014-04-213h 40
Discover The Spellbinding Full Audiobook Now, Story Seekers!Thomas Merton on St. Bernard of Clairvaux: Mellifluous Doctor by Thomas MertonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/448037to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Thomas Merton on St. Bernard of Clairvaux: Mellifluous Doctor
Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Thomas Merton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 2 hours 3 minutes
Release date: March 19, 2014
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
Recorded in 1964 at his monastery, Thomas Merton gave these lectures to novice Cistercians. Today, you are invited into Merton’s classroom for an intimate discussion about one of Christianty’s most influential figures. Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, O. Cist. (1090–1153) is one of the most important figures in the history of Christianity: a founder, reformer, and Doctor...
2014-03-192h 03Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Religion & Spirituality, ChristianityThomas Merton on St. Bernard of Clairvaux: Mellifluous Doctor by Thomas MertonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/448037to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Thomas Merton on St. Bernard of Clairvaux: Mellifluous Doctor
Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Thomas Merton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 2 hours 3 minutes
Release date: March 19, 2014
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
Recorded in 1964 at his monastery, Thomas Merton gave these lectures to novice Cistercians. Today, you are invited into Merton’s classroom for an intimate discussion about one of Christianty’s most influential figures. Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, O. Cist. (1090–1153) is one of the most important figures in the history of Christianity: a founder, reformer, and Doctor...
2014-03-192h 03
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Title: Thomas Merton on James Joyce
Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Thomas Merton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 2 hours 40 minutes
Release date: August 2, 2013
Genres: Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
New York Times bestselling author and monk Thomas Merton explores the literature and spirituality of 20th century's greatest novelist: James Joyce. Born in 1882 to a Catholic family in Dublin, James Joyce wrote some of the most acclaimed masterpieces of modern literature: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, and Finnegans Wake. Educated by Jesuits and deeply influenced by Thomas Aquinas, Joyce...
2013-08-022h 40Embrace An Soul-Stirring Full Audiobook And Elevate Your Mindset.Thomas Merton on James Joyce by Thomas MertonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431335to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Thomas Merton on James Joyce
Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Thomas Merton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 2 hours 40 minutes
Release date: August 2, 2013
Genres: Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
New York Times bestselling author and monk Thomas Merton explores the literature and spirituality of 20th century's greatest novelist: James Joyce. Born in 1882 to a Catholic family in Dublin, James Joyce wrote some of the most acclaimed masterpieces of modern literature: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, and Finnegans Wake. Educated by Jesuits and deeply influenced by Thomas Aquinas...
2013-08-022h 40Download High-Quality Full Audiobooks in Literature, Literary FictionThomas Merton on James Joyce by Thomas MertonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431335to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Thomas Merton on James Joyce
Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Thomas Merton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 2 hours 40 minutes
Release date: August 2, 2013
Genres: Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
New York Times bestselling author and monk Thomas Merton explores the literature and spirituality of 20th century's greatest novelist: James Joyce. Born in 1882 to a Catholic family in Dublin, James Joyce wrote some of the most acclaimed masterpieces of modern literature: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, and Finnegans Wake. Educated by Jesuits and deeply influenced by Thomas Aquinas...
2013-08-022h 40Access Must-Have Full Audiobooks in Religion & Spirituality, ChristianityThomas Merton on James Joyce by Thomas MertonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431335to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Thomas Merton on James Joyce
Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Thomas Merton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 2 hours 40 minutes
Release date: August 2, 2013
Genres: Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
New York Times bestselling author and monk Thomas Merton explores the literature and spirituality of 20th century's greatest novelist: James Joyce. Born in 1882 to a Catholic family in Dublin, James Joyce wrote some of the most acclaimed masterpieces of modern literature: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, and Finnegans Wake. Educated by Jesuits and deeply influenced by Thomas Aquinas, Joyce...
2013-08-022h 40
Journey Through The Binge-Worthy Full Audiobook Experience!Thomas Merton on Vatican II: The Sacred Liturgy and the Religious Life by Thomas MertonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431340to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Thomas Merton on Vatican II: The Sacred Liturgy and the Religious Life
Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Thomas Merton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 3 hours 47 minutes
Release date: December 7, 2012
Genres: Counseling & Inspirational
Publisher's Summary:
Join Thomas Merton in this remarkable course on the Second Vatican Council. On October 11, 1962, the Second Vatican Council opened, and it had a tremendous influence on the Church. Fifty years later the decrees and documents of the council continue to be a lively subject of discussion. Now you can discover the council and its documents with beloved...
2012-12-073h 47Enjoy This Must-Listen Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.Thomas Merton on Vatican II: The Sacred Liturgy and the Religious Life by Thomas MertonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431340to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Thomas Merton on Vatican II: The Sacred Liturgy and the Religious Life
Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Thomas Merton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 3 hours 47 minutes
Release date: December 7, 2012
Genres: Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
Join Thomas Merton in this remarkable course on the Second Vatican Council. On October 11, 1962, the Second Vatican Council opened, and it had a tremendous influence on the Church. Fifty years later the decrees and documents of the council continue to be a lively subject of discussion. Now you can discover the council and its documents with beloved mystic...
2012-12-073h 47Explore the Latest Full Audiobooks in Religion & Spirituality, Counseling & InspirationalThomas Merton on Vatican II: The Sacred Liturgy and the Religious Life by Thomas MertonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431340to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Thomas Merton on Vatican II: The Sacred Liturgy and the Religious Life
Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Thomas Merton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 3 hours 47 minutes
Release date: December 7, 2012
Genres: Counseling & Inspirational
Publisher's Summary:
Join Thomas Merton in this remarkable course on the Second Vatican Council. On October 11, 1962, the Second Vatican Council opened, and it had a tremendous influence on the Church. Fifty years later the decrees and documents of the council continue to be a lively subject of discussion. Now you can discover the council and its documents with beloved...
2012-12-073h 47Access Must-Have Full Audiobooks in Religion & Spirituality, ChristianityThomas Merton on Vatican II: The Sacred Liturgy and the Religious Life by Thomas MertonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431340to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Thomas Merton on Vatican II: The Sacred Liturgy and the Religious Life
Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Thomas Merton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 3 hours 47 minutes
Release date: December 7, 2012
Genres: Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
Join Thomas Merton in this remarkable course on the Second Vatican Council. On October 11, 1962, the Second Vatican Council opened, and it had a tremendous influence on the Church. Fifty years later the decrees and documents of the council continue to be a lively subject of discussion. Now you can discover the council and its documents with beloved mystic...
2012-12-073h 47
Access Must-Have Full Audiobooks in Religion & Spirituality, ChristianityThomas Merton on Solitude and Togetherness by Thomas MertonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431337to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Thomas Merton on Solitude and Togetherness
Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Thomas Merton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
Release date: November 28, 2012
Genres: Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
You are invited to take a spiritual journey with Thomas Merton. Originally presented to a group of nuns on a four-day retreat, these moving talks will touch your heart while revealing new pathways for your spiritual growth. As you examine the relationship between solitude and solidarity, you will explore contemplation as practiced in its diverse forms by believers worldwide. For Merton, being contemplative meant...
2012-11-2811h 23
Access Unmissable Full Audiobooks in Religion & Spirituality, ChristianityThe Prophet's Freedom by Thomas MertonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/435928to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Prophet's Freedom
Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Thomas Merton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Release date: October 26, 2012
Genres: Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
These are some of the most fascinating Thomas Merton lectures ever recorded. Recorded in the last year of his life, these talks capture Merton as he ponders profound questions in an accessible, down-to-earth way. You will glean insight from Merton on a wide range of subjects, all held together by his conviction in our call to live in freeing obedience to the Holy Spirit. As Merton critiques...
2012-10-266h 27
Grab This Transformative Full Audiobook — Perfect While Traveling.Thomas Merton on the Twelve Steps of Humility by Thomas MertonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/435926to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Thomas Merton on the Twelve Steps of Humility
Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Thomas Merton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Release date: June 14, 2012
Genres: Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
You are invited to hear some of Thomas Merton’s most impassioned lectures. In 1962 at Gethsemani Abbey, Thomas Merton taught an extraordinary course on the heart of Benedictine spirituality. Through 16 digitally remastered recordings, you will encounter Merton as a master teacher, his voice reaching out across the decades to make monastic wisdom accessible to all of us. The Rule of St. Benedict is...
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Title: Thomas Merton on the Twelve Steps of Humility
Author: Thomas Merton
Narrator: Thomas Merton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Release date: June 14, 2012
Genres: Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
You are invited to hear some of Thomas Merton’s most impassioned lectures. In 1962 at Gethsemani Abbey, Thomas Merton taught an extraordinary course on the heart of Benedictine spirituality. Through 16 digitally remastered recordings, you will encounter Merton as a master teacher, his voice reaching out across the decades to make monastic wisdom accessible to all of us. The Rule of St. Benedict is...
2012-06-147h 09
Listen To The Full Audiobook That Keeps Busy Professionals Hooked.Thomas Merton: A Spiritual Guide for the Twenty-First Century by Anthony J. CiorraPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/443515to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Thomas Merton: A Spiritual Guide for the Twenty-First Century
Author: Anthony J. Ciorra
Narrator: Anthony J. Ciorra
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes
Release date: August 18, 2011
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.56 of Total 9
Genres: Counseling & Inspirational
Publisher's Summary:
This is a course about Thomas Merton and you. You will explore Thomas Merton's remarkable life and works while actively developing a relationship with him. For many, Merton has become a lifelong mentor and spiritual guide, and he will bring you to new places with the questions he raises and the experiences...
2011-08-185h 13Listen to Top Full Audiobooks in Religion & Spirituality, Counseling & InspirationalThomas Merton: A Spiritual Guide for the Twenty-First Century by Anthony J. CiorraPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/443515to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Thomas Merton: A Spiritual Guide for the Twenty-First Century
Author: Anthony J. Ciorra
Narrator: Anthony J. Ciorra
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes
Release date: August 18, 2011
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.56 of Total 9
Genres: Counseling & Inspirational
Publisher's Summary:
This is a course about Thomas Merton and you. You will explore Thomas Merton's remarkable life and works while actively developing a relationship with him. For many, Merton has become a lifelong mentor and spiritual guide, and he will bring you to new places with the questions he raises and the experiences...
2011-08-185h 13