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In yesterday’s DM we considered the rise of billionaire media moguls with their agendas for a post-democracy America. Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk, David Smith (the
Addressing the avalanche of lies that pass for news on a certain cable news station recently, we have invoked the centrality of the search for
Today, December 10, is the anniversary of Thomas Merton’s entering the monastery in 1940 and also the 54th anniversary of his untimely death. About the
In yesterday’s meditation, we spoke about idolatry. Thomas Merton offered some insights about idolatry in our day that, with time, have proven to be powerfully prophetic.
In yesterday’s DM, we brought together the unlikely prophet of the environmental movement, Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, and Catholic monk Thomas Merton who responded
Shortly after Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, her iconic book that is credited with launching the environmental movement, Catholic monk Thomas Merton responded thus: I have been
One man who celebrated the Divine Feminine and Sophia is the late Catholic monk Thomas Merton. Merton, like Julian of Norwich whom he praised
Thomas Merton’s book on Ishi: A Meditation begins with the following stark words: Genocide is a new word. Perhaps the word is new because technology
Merton speaks out on the importance of the “act of Being.” In 1968, shortly before he died, he wrote: Afflicted as I am with an
We have been meditating on the experience of the “ground of being” which Thich Naht Hanh says is his favorite name for God. His close
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