Over the years many of Thomas Merton’s visitors and friends commented on his sense of humour. With the seriousness of his writings this humour can all too easily be overlooked. This presentation will explore Merton’s sense of humour from his pre-monastic cartoons, through his correspondence, journal entries and recordings, to the stories told by his friends and brothers. Merton’s sense of humor was a way for him to critique the world, humorously warning readers of our propensity to “wear our mitres even to bed” and reminding them of his own need for beer!
Paul M. Pearson is Director of the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky and Chief of Research for the Merton Legacy Trust. He is Resident Secretary of the International Thomas Merton Society and served as President for the 10th administration. Paul is a founding member of the Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain and Ireland. He edited Seeking Paradise: Thomas Merton and the Shakers, A Meeting of Angels: The Correspondence of Thomas Merton with Edward Deming and Faith Andrews, Thomas Merton on Christian Contemplation and, most recently, Beholding Paradise: The Photographs of Thomas Merton.
2022-10-11 - Julianne Wallace - Of Messengers of Peace: A Liturgy for Our World in the Voices of Merton and Francis
Daniel P. Horan, OFM - True and False Love: Thomas Merton’s Spirituality of the Restless
Malgorzata Poks - The Geography of Lograire as Thomas Merton’s Ultimate Autobiography
Gordon Oyer - Re-Visioning a Fragmented World: Learnings through Merton’s Letters on Social Change
Deborah Kehoe: Thomas Merton and Southern Writing
BONUS episode: Sr. Elena Malits, CSC, an interview by Jonathan Montaldo
Gregory K. Hillis: What Does Thomas Merton Have to Tell Us About Catholic Identity?
2022-02-08 - Steven P. Millies: Our Crisis of Authority and Thomas Merton
Doug Hertler - Merton, You and Me: The Reality of Life in the Paschal Mystery
Kathleen Tarr - From the Inner Frontier to the Last Frontier: Thomas Merton‘s Alaska Journey
BONUS episode: Scott Russell Sanders - Reading Merton in the Rain
BONUS episode: Andrew Prevot—”Contemplation in Times of Crisis”
Sophfronia Scott -The Radio of Nature: Merton‘s Tuning Into God Outdoors
Judith Valente - Why We Still Read and Need Thomas Merton: A Personal Journey
BONUS epidode: David Golemboski—"Absurdity and Imagination in a Time of Upheaval"
Lynn R. Szabo - Poetry as Spiritual Direction with Thomas Merton and Denise Levertov
Jim Forest - An Army that Sheds No Blood: Thomas Merton’s Response to War
Michael W. Higgins - Merton and David Jones: Visionaries Both
Kathleen Deignan - Overshadowed: Thomas Merton and the Cloud of Unknowing
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