Thomas Merton—an eternal seeker, dislocated immigrant, and sojourner—left his mark on an Asian woman who was seeking a spiritual adventure. In many borderlands, the virgin points, Merton's hidden yet honest struggle inspire a deep connection with the immigrant woman in exile. Through a personal narrative of sojourning, an emphasis begins to manifest that her religious life began in Korea and found home in the US, contrasting Merton's journey of finding a home in Asia. Dancing with Thomas Merton led the woman to see her true self, beyond the East and West. Transformation occurs at the borderland, a space of encounter, struggle, writing, and contemplation.
Jung Eun Sophia Park, SNJM, is associate professor at Holy Names University in California. She loves to give retreats, spiritual directions, and workshops in U.S. and other countries. Her academic interests are global justice and spirituality, shamanism, postcolonial feminism, and mysticism. Sophia has authored many books, including A Hermeneutic on Dislocation as Experience: Creating a Hybrid Identity, Constructing a Borderland Community, Conversations at the Well: Emerging Religious Life in the 21st Century Global World, Border-Crossing Spirituality: Transformation in the Borderland, and An Asian Woman's Religious Journey with Thomas Merton: Journey to the East/Journey to the West. She also wrote books in Korean, including Thoughtful Chats: How the Story Changed Women, Time Jor Sorrow, Beauty of the Broken, Seasons that I loved, Joy of Life, and For the Broken Humanities. She also writes articles on ordinary spirituality at the Korean Catholic News and offers women's spirituality lessons through YouTube.
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
Paul Pearson - ”I love beer, and, by that very fact, the world.” The Humor (and Humanity) of Thomas Merton
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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