Thomas Merton at Commonweal

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The Psalms as Poetry

The function of the Psalms is to make us share in the poetic experience of the men who wrote them

January 29, 2018

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

Feature

Active & Contemplative Orders

Is there a paradox between the active and contemplative lives?

January 29, 2018

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

Feature

Is Mysticism Normal?

Is mysticism just for some extraordinary souls?

By Thomas Merton

January 29, 2018

Spirituality

From the Archives

Article

Nuclear War and Christian Responsibility

From our pages in 1962, Thomas Merton writes on the duty of Christians in apocalyptic times

January 3, 2018

Article

Self-Denial and the Christian

We cannot give ourselves to God if we do not belong to ourselves

May 10, 2014

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

Article

Teilhard’s Gamble

Teilhard is a genius, a unique and providential combination of the scientist and the mystic

January 30, 2018

Article

Monk & Hunters

Am I a monk the same way he is a hunter?

January 30, 2018

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

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The Psalms as Poetry

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In the Ruins of New York

Feature

Active & Contemplative Orders

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Reality, Art, & Prayer

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Elegy for A Trappist

Feature

Is Mysticism Normal?

Article

Nuclear War and Christian Responsibility

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Self-Denial and the Christian

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Schoolboy in England

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Teilhard’s Gamble

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Monk & Hunters

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The ‘Honest to God’ Debate

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