Merton on Thursdays | Session 3 of 5

Speakers:

Gordon Oyer – Finding Hope in the 'Sacramental' Economies of Thomas Merton and Walter Weisskopf

Peter Ellis - Walking out of the door into fresh air

Chair: Liz Hanvey, Thomas Merton Society GB & Ireland

All are welcome to join us for our 3rd (of 5) Merton on Thursdays event on 4 August, 7-8:30pm GMT.

Zoom access:

Meeting ID: 838 4325 1067

Passcode: 595977

https://tinyurl.com/28afjvrk

Gordon Oyer is the author of Signs of Hope: Thomas Merton’s Letters on Peace, Race, and Ecology (2021) and Pursuing the Spiritual Roots of Protest: Merton, Berrigan, Yoder and Muste at the Gethsemani Abbey Peacemakers Retreat (2014), as well as articles in The Merton Journal and The Merton Annual. He is a former administrator at the University of Illinois and lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

Peter Ellis is currently researching and writing about eco-spirituality. His latest publication is ‘Can natural theology rethink its relationship with non-human animals’ in Posthumanist Perspectives on Literary and Cultural Animals (2021). He has regularly presented at TMSGBI and ITMS conferences and contributes to the Merton Journal.