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Tuesdays with Merton PodcastMegan Way - Economics and Merton, Developing the Negatives
What kind of economic system might Thomas Merton advocate? What principles would it be based on and how would it differ from what we see in the United States, or Sweden, or China, or Cuba? Answering these questions requires developing the negatives. Merton's writings are full of critiques of capitalism and its voracious appetites, its obsession with technology, its triviality and tricks, its relationship to the war machine, and its degradation of humans in pursuit of profit. Merton also critiques communism and its materialism, its obsession with technology, its relationship to the war machine, its degradation of...
2026-02-111h 12Tuesdays with Merton PodcastJordan T. Jones - Thomas Merton meets James Cone: A Conversation That Never Happened
One year after Thomas Merton's passing, the Black American liberation theologian James Cone published Black Theology and Black Power, a reflection on the Black Power movement of the 1960s and the central role that liberation plays in the Christian gospel. As we know, Merton dedicated significant effort considering U.S. race relations broadly and the Black Power Movement specifically as evidenced by an entire chapter in his book Faith and Violence, entitled “From Non-violence to Black Power” but what we don't know is if the two ever met in person. Nonetheless, Merton and Cone inhabited proximate theological and...
2026-01-141h 11Tuesdays with Merton PodcastJudith Valente - In Their Own Words: The Monks Who Knew Merton
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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...
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CAM podcastEpisode 137: Thomas Merton's Betrayers, an update with Hugh TurleyIn 2019, I interviewed Hugh Turley about the book he wrote with his co-author, David Martin, "The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton: An Investigation." In 2023, Turkey and Martin published a follow-up: "Thomas Merton's Betrayers: The Case Against Abbot James Fox and author John Howard Griffin." Mr. Turley is back to tell us about the latest book and to give us some updates on the latest news about the investigation, new artistic ventures thalami to bring the story of Merton's death to light, and a possible cause for canonization. Find the first CAM interview with Hugh here: https://youtu.be...
2025-12-091h 57Tuesdays 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 13
McConnell Center PodcastWhy You Should Read Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain with Mark MeadeJoin Mark C Meade for a discussion regarding the importance of The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton. Mark C. Meade is the Assistant Director of the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University. In over 20 years at the Center as an archivist, he has assisted scholars from around the world while himself presenting and publishing internationally on Merton's writings. Mark served as the sixteenth president of the International Thomas Merton Society. His scholarship has focused on Merton's autobiography and dialogue with the writings of Victoria Ocampo, Albert Camus, and Flannery O'Connor. About the podcast:
2025-10-3029 minTuesdays 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 min
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2025-08-2600 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
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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 min
New Books in Catholic StudiesWords and Silences: The Thomas Merton Hermitage TapesBrian Harnetty’s recent record, Words and Silences, takes voice recordings made by the famed American Trappist monk Thomas Merton and sets them within Harnetty’s musical compositions. The meditative and revealing result has been lauded by critics in The Wire, MOJO, and Aquarium Drunkard. In this episode, we share a Phantom Power exclusive: a brand new narrative piece that Brian created about the making of his record. “Words and Silences: The Thomas Merton Hermitage Tapes” is much more than a behind-the-scenes look at Brian’s process. Harnetty’s audio diary is its own moving meditation on Merton, solitude, s...
2025-02-2448 min
New Books in Sound StudiesWords and Silences: The Thomas Merton Hermitage TapesBrian Harnetty’s recent record, Words and Silences, takes voice recordings made by the famed American Trappist monk Thomas Merton and sets them within Harnetty’s musical compositions. The meditative and revealing result has been lauded by critics in The Wire, MOJO, and Aquarium Drunkard. In this episode, we share a Phantom Power exclusive: a brand new narrative piece that Brian created about the making of his record. “Words and Silences: The Thomas Merton Hermitage Tapes” is much more than a behind-the-scenes look at Brian’s process. Harnetty’s audio diary is its own moving meditation on Merton, solitude, s...
2025-02-2448 min
New Books in Christian StudiesWords and Silences: The Thomas Merton Hermitage TapesBrian Harnetty’s recent record, Words and Silences, takes voice recordings made by the famed American Trappist monk Thomas Merton and sets them within Harnetty’s musical compositions. The meditative and revealing result has been lauded by critics in The Wire, MOJO, and Aquarium Drunkard. In this episode, we share a Phantom Power exclusive: a brand new narrative piece that Brian created about the making of his record. “Words and Silences: The Thomas Merton Hermitage Tapes” is much more than a behind-the-scenes look at Brian’s process. Harnetty’s audio diary is its own moving meditation on Merton, solitude, s...
2025-02-2448 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 min
History of Philosophy Audio Archive#109 - Love and the Search for God: Thomas Merton on Rilke, Monastic versus Lay Living, and Finding GodCome join my Patreon!
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Indeed, the truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers the most: and his suffering comes to him from things so little and so trivial that one can say that it is no longer objective at all...
2024-09-0759 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 17
Hunger for WholenessWhat Thomas Merton Would Say Today with Fr. Dan Horan (Part 1)What Thomas Merton Would Say Today with Fr. Dan Horan (Part 1)Ilia Delio interviews Fr. Dan Horan, professor of Philosophy, Religious Studies and Theology at Saint Mary’s College and author of Engaging Thomas Merton: Spirituality, Justice, and Racism. Ilia asks Dan how he became interested in Thomas Merton, and what relevant insights he believes the teachers of yesterday have for us today in the shadow of ecological crisis and in need of social justice.ABOUT DAN HORAN“God’s love is not conditioned like our love, God’s mercy is not bound as...
2024-04-1530 minTuesdays 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 04
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2023-09-2700 minTuesdays 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...
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Haus am Dom - Der PodcastWer war Thomas Merton? Folge 2 "... in diesem unbeschreiblichen Paradies." Schöpfung und Natur bei Thomas MertonIm zweiten Teil unserer Reihe über Thomas Merton sprechen wir über Mertons Verhältnis zu Natur. Schon Ende der 60er Jahre fordert er ein ökologisches Gewissen!
Mit: Dr. Dominiek Lootens und Dr. Johannes Lorenz (Moderation)
Cover: “Photograph of Thomas Merton. Used with Permission of the Merton Legacy Trust and the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University.”
2023-07-1842 min
Haus am Dom - Der PodcastWer war Thomas Merton? Folge 1In der Reihe sprechen wir über den Trappistenmönch, Nonkonformisten und spirituellen Autoren Thomas Merton. Seine Sicht auf den Menschen, die Natur, die Religionen und die Welt - kann sie uns einen Weg in die Zukunft weisen? Mit: Dominiek Lootens und Johannes Lorenz
Cover: “Photograph of Thomas Merton. Used with Permission of the Merton Legacy Trust and the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University.”
2023-06-0638 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 01
Phantom PowerThe Thomas Merton Hermitage Tapes: The Voice, Silence, and the Self w/ Brian Harnetty
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Brian Harnetty’s recent record, Words and Silences, takes voice recordings made by the famed American Trappist monk Thomas Merton and sets them within Harnetty’s musical compositions. The meditative and revealing result has been lauded by critics in The Wire, MOJO, and Aquarium Drunkard.
In this episode, we share a Phantom Power exclusive: a brand new narrative piece that Brian cr...
2023-03-1445 min
Stage Door, a theatre podcast hosted by two average guys. Hosted by: Kyle Omlor, Thom Ovacek, Ron MaWinter Rain, Six Images of Thomas Merton: A staged reading of Anthony Padovano's powerful play about Thomas Merton, American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, and social activist tolWinter Rain, Six Images of Thomas Merton: A staged reading of Anthony Padovano's powerful play about Thomas Merton, American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, and social activist told in six monologues by six actors with jazz piano.
March 25-26
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Directed by Jeffrey Albright and featuring Barbara Barkan, Charles Crockett, Angie Gresko, Matt Kizaur, Mark Owen, and Phil Skeldon. Each actor portrays Merton at different stages of his life. With Tajj Crowder on piano.
2023-03-1025 minTuesdays 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 02
The Gloria Purvis PodcastFr. August Thompson-the Black Catholic priest that inspired Thomas MertonGloria speaks with Greg Hillis, Professor of Theology & Religious Studies at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky. In the last few years Prof. Hillis has turned his attention to the life and writings of Thomas Merton, the famous Trappist monk from Kentucky whose literary estate is housed at the Merton Center at Bellarmine University. In addition to his book on Thomas Merton - "Man of Dialogue": Thomas Merton's Catholic Vision - Prof. Hillis is currently working on a book-length biography of Fr. August Thompson, an oppressed Black Catholic priest who was friends with Merton, who shared his life experiences of p...
2022-11-1536 minTuesdays 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 min
JesuiticalNukes, contemplation and vocation: An introduction to Thomas Merton for young CatholicsDuring 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 Thomas Merton. That last name was certainly familiar to Catholics who came of age after Vatican II, but do young Catholics know much about this mid-century Trappist monk and author?Thomas Merton is best known for his spiritual autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain. But he was also a prolific letter writer and, though living in a monastery, engaged with the most pressing social and political issues...
2022-03-2553 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 10
Faith and More PodcastS01 E15: Thomas Merton Join me this week as we explore the great Thomas Merton! Thomas Merton, the original name of Father M. Louis, (born January 31, 1915, Prades, France—died December 10, 1968 – at the age of 53, Bangkok, Thailand), Roman Catholic monk, poet, and prolific writer on spiritual and social themes, one of the most important American Roman Catholic writers of the 20th century. This episode aires just two days after the anniversary of the passing of Thomas Merton.
Source of information shared this week... https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Merton
The Official Thomas Merton website... http://merton.org/
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2021-12-1231 min
ForecastEpisode 19: Thomas Merton and the Vocation of Writing (Part 1)Thomas Merton was a writer and a Trappist monk. In today's Forecast, Josh goes through the first chapter of Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing, edited by Robert Inchausti, identifying and commenting on Merton's writing about vocation and the ministry of writing. Ultimately, Merton says we are all called to become new creations in Christ and participate in Christ's work of making all things new, and writing is one of the ways we can do that. Merton also points out limits of language and tensions between seeking union with God and writing about that experience. Hosted on Acast...
2021-11-151h 47Tuesdays 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 16
DeviateSophfronia Scott on Thomas Merton“For as much as we seek our paths and have questions about the journey, there is a sense deep within us, like a primeval compass, that shows we already know where to go.” – Sophfronia Scott
In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Sophfronia talk about how they came to know of Merton, and how his journals reveal his truer self (2:00); being “spiritual but not religious,” the language of beholding versus the language of belief, and how interactions with nature are a spiritual exercise (9:00); human versus divine love, and how the most spiritual moments are often the most difficult o...
2021-05-1850 minDeviate with Rolf PottsSophfronia Scott on Thomas Merton“For as much as we seek our paths and have questions about the journey, there is a sense deep within us, like a primeval compass, that shows we already know where to go.” – Sophfronia Scott
In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Sophfronia talk about how they came to know of Merton, and how his journals reveal his truer self (2:00); being “spiritual but not religious,” the language of beholding versus the language of belief, and how interactions with nature are a spiritual exercise (9:00); human versus divine love, and how the most spiritual moments are often the most difficult o...
2021-05-1850 minTuesdays 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 min
Discover A Full Audiobook That Is Simply Addictive.Thomas Merton on Chinese & Greek Philosophy by Thomas MertonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/161548to listen full audiobooks.
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Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
Release date: 02-26-21
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Genres: Eastern
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A leading Christian intellectual and a global citizen, Thomas Merton was known for his mission to understand and learn from other cultures’ worldviews and philosophies. Now, as you listen to these nine captivating talks on Chinese and Greek philosophy, your own interest in these ancient schools of thought, Eastern and Western, will be ignited.
2021-02-264h 52Tuesdays 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
John Dear's Peace PodcastThomas Merton's Teachings on Nonviolence-June 2020John Dear speaks to us on the life and teachings of the monk Thomas Merton. Dear tells us that Merton was one of the first United States priests or monks to publicly denounce war, racism, nuclear weapons, and violence. He quotes Merton as saying, “the God of peace is never glorified by human violence.” John extends that by adding “the God of peace is always glorified by human nonviolence.” Thus, begins a podcast filled with eye opening revelations that Merton experienced and wrote about in his many books and and essays. Merton says that “the chief difference between violence and nonviolenc...
2020-05-2500 minCAM podcastEpisode 31: The Strange Death of Thomas MertonAn interview with Hugh Turley, co-author of the book "The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton: An Investigation." In the more than fifty years since Merton passed, this has been the only investigation of his death ever conducted.Find CAM here: www.catholicsagainstmilitarism.comRSS feed: http://www.buzzsprout.com/296171Mentioned in this episode: "The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton: An Investigation" https://www.amazon.com/Martyrdom-Thomas-Merton-Investigation/dp/1548077380/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2CNV8XVI3XOWR&keywords=the+martyrdom+of+thomas+merton&qid=1582888800&s=books&sprefix=the+martyrdom+of%2Caps%2C218&sr=1-1S...
2020-02-291h 27CAM podcastEpisode 30: Antiwar Thomas Merton, The Early YearsA look through the spiritual classic "The Seven Storey Mountain" to find out what shaped Thomas Merton's views on war and how those views developed in the first half of his life. (Note: spoilers!)0:00 Intro3:13 Early life8:12 Leaving England/Cambridge (1934)15:48 Communism at Columbia---The Peace Strike and The Oxford Pledge22:23 Merton discovers the need for a spiritual life25:25 The "one truth people need to learn"29:09 Rumors of war---Signing up for the draft40:41 Merton's draft number gets called--discerning whether the war is just48:52 Goodbye to...
2020-02-2553 min
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
Freedom Loves CompanyThe Martyrdom of Thomas Merton: Hugh Turley Investigates His Death 50 Years LaterHeart failure, accident, or murder? John Shuck interviews Hugh Turley about the mysterious death of Thomas Merton.December 10th 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of his death. Is it now time for the truth?Investigative Reporter, Hugh Turley, makes the case that the conclusion that Thomas Merton died by accident cannot possibly be true. Hugh Turley and David Martin are co-authors of the 2018 book, The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton, An Investigation.John Shuck speaks live with Hugh Turley on Beloved Community about the death of Th...
2018-12-0553 min
Freedom Loves CompanyThe Martyrdom of Thomas Merton: A Conversation with Hugh TurleyHeart failure, accident, or murder? John Shuck interviews Hugh Turley about the mysterious death of Thomas MertonInvestigative Reporter, Hugh Turley, makes the case that the conclusion that Thomas Merton died by accident cannot possibly be true. Hugh Turley and David Martin are co-authors of the 2018 book, The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton, An Investigation. John Shuck speaks live with Hugh Turley on Beloved Community about the death of Thomas Merton, who was an anti-war author and spiritual leader. He died mysteriously on December 10th, 1968 in Thailand. "Mer...
2018-07-1353 min
Listen to Top 100 Audiobooks in Religion & Spirituality, ChristianityThomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain, and the Rest of the Story AudiobookPlease visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1467 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain, and the Rest of the Story Author: Prof. Michael W. Higgins PhD Narrator: Prof. Michael W. Higgins PhD Format: Original Recording Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins Language: English Release date: 12-12-17 Publisher: Now You Know Media Inc. Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity Publisher's Summary: Presented by acclaimed biographer Prof. Michael W. Higgins, PhD, this course explores the life and literary genius of Thomas Merton. When Thomas Merton published The Seven Storey Mountain in 1948, no one could have expected...
2017-12-1205 min
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
Indulge In The Most Addictive Full Audiobook Today!Mystics, Muslims, and Thomas Merton by Sidney H. GriffithPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/91531to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Mystics, Muslims, and Thomas Merton
Author: Sidney H. Griffith
Narrator: Sidney H. Griffith
Format: mp3
Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
Release date: 08-10-17
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 2 ratings
Genres: Christian
Publisher's Summary:
Explore Thomas Merton’s encounter with Islam and its mystical tradition of Sufism with one of Catholicism’s great scholars. This captivating six-lecture audio course focuses on Merton’s engagement with Islam. Your presenter is Professor Sidney Griffith (Ph.D., Catholic University of America), an expert in Muslim-Christian relations and a lifelong reader of Thomas Merton.
2017-08-102h 28
ContemplifyThe Life and Art of Thomas Merton: Morgan Atkinson on Crafting the Contemplative DocumentaryMorgan Atkinson has documented the life of Thomas Merton over two films. The poetic contemplative Thomas Merton lived an ever expanding and continual openness to God's love and Atkinson beautifully captures this on film. In this episode discover Thomas Merton as the rescuer of the contemplative tradition in Christianity, the middle-aged monk who fell ass over heels in love with a student nurse, and open dialogues with other religious traditions through the depth of each's contemplative stream. Atkinson has produced multiple documentaries on Thomas Merton, John Howard Griffin, Anna and Harlan Hubbard among many others. In our conversation we fo...
2016-08-101h 00
Life on Purpose55: Soul Series w/Matthew Fox on Creation Spirituality, Thomas Merton, and a Way to GodFor Life on Purpose Episode #55, a special "Soul Series" interview, my guest is preeminent theologian and bestselling author Matthew Fox, a popularizer of Western mysticism. Matthew joined me for an enlightening chat about his new book A WAY TO GOD: Thomas Merton's Creation Spirituality Journey, the Cosmic Christ, the divine feminine, eco-justice, and MUCH more! “A WAY TO GOD is a powerful book about Merton’s pioneering work in deep ecumenism and interfaith; about his essential teachings on mixing contemplation and action; and about how the vision of thirteenth century mystic Meister Eckhart profoundly influenced both...
2016-06-2459 min