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Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968.
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Merton Recordings #129 Tr-2 (excerpt from the last 5 minutes: a story from the Christian desert fathers and two Zen stories) - from the Vow of conversion of manners.
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Opening conference benediction by Sr. Margaret Carney, O.S.F., S.T.D. at the 15th General Meeting of the ITMS, held at St. Bonaventure University, Olean, NY, June 16, 2017.
Sr. Margaret Carney, O.S.F., S.T.D., former president of St. Bonaventure University, offers an opening blessing to the 2017 International Thomas Merton Society conference. -
Audio excerpt on Easter from Merton Recordings #187 Tr-2a-3 - Easter homily.
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"Graph of my work. Feb. 6, 1967." Thomas Merton's evaluation of his own books.
Thomas Merton rates his published books in varying degrees from "Awful" to "Best." -
Reading Merton in the Rain, a plenary lecture by Scott Russell Sanders at the 15th General Meeting of the ITMS, held at St. Bonaventure University, Olean, NY, June 16, 2017.
Scott Russell Sanders is the author of twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, including Hunting for Hope and A Conservationist Manifesto. His most recent books are Earth Works: Selected Essays (2012) and Divine Animal: A Novel(2014). A collection of his eco-science fiction stories entitled Dancing in Dreamtime and a new edition of his documentary narrative, Stone Country, co-authored with photographer Jeffrey Wolin, were published in 2017. Among his honors are the Lannan Literary Award, the John Burroughs Essay Award, the Mark Twain Award, the Cecil Woods Award for Nonfiction, the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2012 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Indiana University. He and his wife, Ruth, a biochemist, have reared two children in their hometown of Bloomington, in the hardwood hill country of Indiana’s White River Valley. -
1968-04-05: Letter from Thomas Merton to Coretta Scott King after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination.
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Merton Recordings #175b Tr-2 - Lecture by Dan Walsh.
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Merton Recordings #211 Tr-6 - Christmas Day mass at Merton's hermitage. Celebrant Fr. Dan Walsh.
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Merton Recordings #212 Tr-2 - Origin of philosophy in the West. Lecture by Dan Walsh.
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Merton Recordings #214 Tr-11 - Trinity Sunday high mass at Gethsemani - Dan Walsh celebrant.