TMS Reading Group Information
The Thomas Merton Society Reading Group - join us - all are welcome!
The first session of the new online Thomas Merton Society Reading Group was on 16 June 2022.
We have discussed the following Thomas Merton writings during our meetings:
‘Day of a Stranger’
'The Root of War is Fear' chapter (Chapter 16) in New Seeds of Contemplation
'A Life Free from Care'
‘Advent: Hope or Delusion?’
Text from The Thomas Merton Encyclopedia on Nature
‘Prometheus: A Meditation’
Chapter 3 of The Seven Storey Mountain
Text from The Thomas Merton Encyclopedia on Nonviolence
‘Message to Poets’ in Raids on the Unspeakable
‘The Power and Meaning of Love’ in Disputed Questions.
Correspondence between Thomas Merton & Rosemary Radford Ruether
‘The Wild Places’
We will all come together again for our next Zoom meeting on Thursday 20 June 2024 at 7pm BST (6pm GMT) when we will be looking at Merton’s essay ‘Rain and the Rhinoceros’, a meditation written from Merton’s hermitage in 1965. The essay is included in Raids on the Unspeakable.
If you would like to join the bi-monthly reading group please email tmsreadinggroup@thomasmertonsociety.org.uk
Those who sign up are provided with digital copies of the texts for discussion, on the basis that they are for study and personal use only.
Online meeting details:
Topic: The TMS Reading Group meeting
Time: Recurring
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