Of Gods and Men
The first images of the monks’ daily lives in Of Gods and Men are peaceful ones: They tend to gardens, pour jars of golden honey,…
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Busted: Morgan Atkinson
Introduction and interview by Bill McGarvey It is no surprise that a young seeker—as Morgan Atkinson was back in the mid-1970s—would be interested in the…
The Belly of a Paradox
Forty years ago today, Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk and perhaps the most popular American Catholic writer in history, stepped out of a bathroom shower…
What is “Lectio Divina?”
“Lectio” is the Latin word for reading. In Catholic language a lector is a reader and a lectionary is the book of scripture readings. So…