For Thomas Merton's birthday: My reflections for the 2019 ITMS conference: "The Gate of Heaven is Everywhere," on Merton's unfolding quest for holiness, and what that means today. bit.ly/3YdtGLs (Icon: William Hart McNichols)
Conversation
‘Emblems of a Season of Fury’
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“Although he is a Trappist monk, living apart from ‘the world,’ Father Merton's poems deal directly and powerfully w/the most crucial spiritual and social problems of our time—Birmingham, Auschwitz, the atom bomb, and the refugee.’
[January 1963]
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Thank you for sharing the lecture! A great way to celebrate his birthday.
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