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 will be published this fall, and a new edition of his documentary narrative, Stone Country, co-authored with photographer Jeffrey Wolin, will appear 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.
"Reading Merton in the Rain" was presented in June of 2017 at St. Bonaventure University for the 15th General Meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society.
Robert Ellsberg - 'It's the Direction that Matters': How Sister Wendy Beckett Changed Her Mind about Merton
Sophfronia Scott - Courageous Conversations on Death with Thomas Merton
Leslye Colvin - Merton: An Invitation to Unbind Him and Ourselves
Anne Pearson - White Man Writing on Racism: Thomas Merton and ”Letters to a White Liberal”
Ilia Delio - Merton’s Christophany and the Second Axial Monk
BONUS episode, Shannen Dee Williams - America’s Real Sister Act: Illuminating the Hidden History of Black Catholic Nuns in the African American Freedom Struggle
Cassidy Hall - Queering Thomas Merton
BONUS episode, Simone Campbell - Hunger for Hope: Contemplation and Political Action
BONUS episode, Sophia Park - Dancing with Thomas Merton in the Borderland
BONUS episode, Maria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer - Women in Merton’s Life: Notes on His Experience with the Feminine
Mark C. Meade - The Seven Storey Mountain at Seventy-Five: Classic or Déclassé?
BONUS episode: Christopher Pramuk’s Presidential Address for Sophia Comes Forth Reaching, the 18th General Meeting of the ITMS
Jim Robinson - Spirituality Sustainability and Social Justice: Embodying “Integral Ecology” with Thomas Merton and Rosemary Radford Ruether
Patrick F. O’Connell - Beyond the Blurbs: Thomas Merton and St. Augustine
Mary Frohlich, RSCJ - Merton as Disciple and Re-interpreter of St. John of the Cross
Bob Grip - Washington Watches the Monk II
Emma McDonald - Fully Human and Fully Real: Thomas Merton on Technology and Embodiment
David Golemboski - People that God Has Brought together: Thomas Merton on the Hope of Political Community Beyond Nationalism
2022-11-08 - Partners in the General Dance of the Spirit: Thomas Merton and Ilia Delio Evolving into the Grandeur of God
2022-10-11 - Julianne Wallace - Of Messengers of Peace: A Liturgy for Our World in the Voices of Merton and Francis
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