If you are presently a Mertonian or are interested in Thomas Merton you really should listen to Michael Spencer's podcast, Free Thomas Merton! - nice job, synopsis of the man, his life, etc. Michael's site is the Internet Monk - point of order cap'n - not sure if he's THEEE internet monk, I'm sittin' right here too you know, but he's got the name so there you go. ha! He's also a part of the Boar's Head Tavern blog, which, if I am ever linked from (and I am from time to time, thanks Michael) I get the craziest reader spike. It's pretty funny.
Michael did a very good job going over Merton's life and thoughts in a short time. I think I'd only take one little issue with his assessment (which is really inside of agreement) - I believe Merton WAS a Mystic, a Contemplative. He was just a balanced one, not sort of crazy like we're used to seeing in that arena sometimes. I think he had most definitely tapped into a level of awareness of God's Life and of his own identity in that Life and that's why he was (and is) such an amazing Teacher and Prophet. That doesn't happen intellectually. Anyway, like I said, not really disagreement so much as my view from this side of the Merton fence.
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If you are presently a Mertonian or are interested in Thomas Merton you really should listen to Michael Spencer's podcast, Free Thomas Merton! - nice job, synopsis of the man, his life, etc. Michael's site is the Internet Monk - point of order cap'n - not sure if he's THEEE internet monk, I'm sittin' right here too you know, but he's got the name so there you go. ha! He's also a part of the Boar's Head Tavern blog, which, if I am ever linked from (and I am from time to time, thanks Michael) I get the craziest reader spike. It's pretty funny.
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