An Unsettling Horizon: A Father’s 9/11 Prayer
As we approach the 15th anniversary of 9/11, I’d like to share an essay just published in America magazine, and linked here: …
Fr. Daniel Berrigan: RIP
Editor’s Note: Fr. Dan Berrigan died today. I met him once in Denver, and will never forget the gentleness and prophetic clarity …
Picture of a Black Child with White Doll
A poem by Thomas Merton for Denise McNair, one of four children killed in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, …
All Theology is a Kind of Birthday: Merton 2015
All theology is a kind of birthday / Each one who is born / Comes into the world as a question/ For …
Merton at 100: Thanks for the Memories
For a long time around my house – mainly during the two years or so I was writing my dissertation – he …
The Terrible Beauty and Power of Language
If you love the written and spoken word, and haven’t yet seen “The Book Thief,” director Brian Percival’s adaptation of the best-selling …
A New Center (Where the Gospel Requires Us to Be)
In Calcutta just weeks before his death, Thomas Merton famously described the monk, and thus himself, as a “very strange kind of …
“I Went to the Woods”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if …
Icon of Holy World Evangelist Thomas Merton
Celebrating a New Icon of Thomas Merton by William Hart McNichols Author’s Note: When Fr. Bill sent me this image of his …
The Concrete God: Living, Breathing, and Loving
The Pope’s recent interview with America magazine has been haunting my evening thoughts and invading my daily prayer. The following passage I …
