Posted in Mark Driscoll, Bible, Jesus, John Piper, Marshall McLuhan, Politics, Emergent Church, Emerging Church, Emerging / Emergent Church, Books and Authors, Thomas Merton, Donald Miller, Church, Theology on Nov 3rd, 2008
When I find a worthy author I engage that author intensely and exhaustively until I can articulate what they are and are not about. I’ve done this with CS Lewis, Thomas Merton, Marshall McLuhan, Mark Driscoll, Douglas Coupland, Madeleine L’engle, and I am now doing it with John Piper. Many people sip on these authors […]
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PERSONAL REFLECTIONS
On a church men’s group road trip to an enormous Christian bookstore in Detroit when I was 17 or 18 years old, I discovered Thomas Merton. I don’t remember when I first heard his name but I know I had been reading books and listening to music that quoted him and even used […]
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THE RANGE OF MERTON’S INFLUENCE
Despite the fact that some viewed him as a “celebrity monk”, Merton remained focused on his disciplined life as a Trappist. Those naming his as an influence and referencing his works range from 60’s folk music icon Joan Baez to present-day conservative Emerging Church pastor Mark Driscoll.1
Merton’s life of disciplined submission […]
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THOUGHTS IN SOLITUDE
Merton’s Thoughts in Solitude was written in 1953 and 1954 during an intense time of solitude and meditation afforded to him, as he puts it, “by the grace of God and the favor of his Superiors.”1 There was no intention for the book to address advanced or sensational adventures in these disciplines, but […]
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LIFE AS A TRAPPIST MONK
“It is customary,” Merton says in The Silent Life, “to begin discussions of Cistercian spirituality with a historical flourish”1 – and so I will begin as custom dictates.
On Palm Sunday in 1098 Robert of Molesmes and a group of monks left their Benedictine monastery and traveled to the woods of Citeaux, […]
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Thomas Merton has been rightly called “one of the most influential Catholic authors of the 20th century,”1 but his influence has spread far beyond the limits of the Catholic population. The endurance and diversity of his influence is due in large part to the strict observance of The Rule of St. Benedict Merton practiced […]
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