The Merton Journal

The Merton Journal is bi-annual, published at Easter and in Advent. The Journal contains articles, book reviews and other information of interest to members of the Society. ISSN 1366-3593.

The editor of the Merton Journal is Susanne Jennings. The poetry editor is Elizabeth Holmes and the book review editor is Stephen Dunhill.

The editor welcomes articles (of around 3000 words), letters, appropriate book reviews and brief notes of relevant upcoming events. Before making a submission please read our guidance notes for articles or book reviews. For specific guidance please contact the editor. Submissions may be edited for clarity and space.

To submit material, or to discuss possible submissions, contact the editor, Susanne Jennings, at::

 editor@thomasmertonsociety.org.uk

The Easter 2025 issue, Vol. 32, No.1, included
Opening Thomas Merton’s Bible - J S Porter
Wandering the Mönchsweg: Personal Reflections on Merton, Menonites, and the Margins - Gordon Oyer
Thomas Merton as a Catalyst for Friendship? A Conversation - Rowan Williams & Bonnie Thurston
Songs for Harlem and Laments for the Children in Birmingham and Beyond - Anthony Purvis
A Way with Words: Thomas Merton’s Orwellian Thoughts on Language - John Gillespie
A Vista Opening Far and Wide: The Mosaic that Struck Merton - Richard Conrad
Book Review - Fr Charlie Annis CR
Poems by Andy Humphrey & Bonnie Thurston

All members receive copies of the Journal. Extra copies are available for £8.99 +P&P. Currently there are no copies of earlier editions of The Merton Journal available. Copies are held in the Merton Collection, the Thomas Merton Center, Bellarmine University, Louisville, Kentucky, the British Library and The American Library of Congress.

The contents of earlier editions of The Merton Journal can be found on this website under Resources.
Click here for a consolidated list of articles complete up to Vol.19 No.2.
Some articles are available to view on this website. Click here to access these.

The Eastertide 2018 edition (vol. 25-1), largely devoted to Kenneth Leech, may be viewed here.

Everything is emptiness and everything is compassion. … I know and have seen what I was obscurely looking for. I don’t know what else remains, but I have now seen and have pierced through the surface and have got beyond the shadow and the disguise.

- Thomas Merton, at reclining Buddhist statue at Polonnaruwa