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Article You Can Go Home Again Between factions in American politics, Catholicism, and evangelicalism, David P. Gushee makes sense of his life and the culture wars that divide us By Marcia Pally February 1, 2018 Books Ecumenism Secularism and Modernity U.S. Catholicism
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Article The ‘Honest to God’ Debate Thomas Merton takes issue with Anglican Bishop J. A. T. Robinson’s book that argues that the Christian image has become inadequate in the modern world By Thomas Merton January 30, 2018 Theology Secularism and Modernity Spirituality From the Archives
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Article Schoolboy in England Like practically everyone else in our stupid and godless society, I was to consider these two years as "my religious phase." By Thomas Merton January 30, 2018 Spirituality
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Article What Did I Just Pray? Why we still need to talk about liturgical translation By Rita Ferrone January 30, 2018 U.S. Catholicism Bishops Liturgy Columnists
Feature Active & Contemplative Orders Is there a paradox between the active and contemplative lives? By Thomas Merton January 29, 2018 Spirituality Religious Life Theology From the Archives
Article In the Ruins of New York This was the city / That dressed herself in paper money. / She lived four hundred years By Thomas Merton January 29, 2018 Poetry Secularism and Modernity
Article Reality, Art, & Prayer Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order By Thomas Merton January 29, 2018 Spirituality Arts
Article Elegy for A Trappist “Maybe the martyrology until today / Has found no fitting word to describe you” By Thomas Merton January 29, 2018 Poetry Spirituality
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Article The Psalms as Poetry The function of the Psalms is to make us share in the poetic experience of the men who wrote them By Thomas Merton January 29, 2018 Poetry Spirituality From the Archives
