Fostering Spiritual Kinship Reflections from Pamela Ayo Yetunde, author of Casting Indra’s Net For all the wonderful things people think Buddhism is about, I believe Buddhist practitioners remain under-resourced when it comes to interfaith (and by this I also mean interreligious) leadership and dialogue. Many things are said about Buddhism: it’s a world religion, it’s

We know your lives have been profoundly changed by the impact of the ongoing global health crisis. We know you are concerned for yourselves, for your loved ones, for your communities. We know so many people are suffering right now, and are afraid. And we want to help. We want you to know that though we

Thomas Merton's Influence on the Beats by Robert Inchausti, author of Hard to Be a Saint in the City Thomas Merton, “Honorary Beatnik” It’s hard to say exactly when Thomas Merton became an “Honorary Beatnik.” One could chase the association all the way back to the mid-thirties when, as an undergraduate at Columbia, he first became friends

A Quality of Being By Dave O’Neal We talk with Roger Lipsey about his book Make Peace Before the Sun Goes Down: The Long Encounter of Thomas Merton and His Abbot, James Fox 2018 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the most famous Trappist monk of modern times—or perhaps of all time—Thomas Merton.

“God can be held fast by love, but by thought never.” The questions that arise upon encounter with this and other such confounding lines from the Christian mystical classic The Cloud of Unknowing (What is meant by “God,” anyway? What is love? What can be “known” beyond thought?) are what keep many potential readers from

A Monk's Alphabet: Moments of Stillness in a Turning World by Jeremy Driscoll, OSB Yes, that's OSB as in Order of Saint Benedict. This Roman Catholic monk and theologian kept a journal of short reflections inspired by contact with various and sundry experiences: Listening to Beethoven, air travel, Washington, D.C, mosquitoes €¦ He alphabetized them

The Cloud of Unknowing with the Book of Privy Counsel: A New Translation by Carmen Acevedo Butcher What makes Carmen's translation of this classic of Christian mysticism stand out from the others is that she puts it in a modern voice that aims to be the equivalent of the original Middle English: the simple and

The Way of a Pilgrim and The Pilgrim Continues His Way translated by Olga Savin This is the little book that Franny clings to throughout her doomed date with Lane in the J.D. Salinger classic Franny and Zooey, which is likely how most people came to know about it after 1961. But this classic of

Last time Cynthia was in our office, she and her editor, Dave O'Neal, had an interesting conversation about centering prayer, the future of Christianity, her book The Meaning of Mary Magdalene, and much more. Please enjoy these videos from her visit. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3A545CJTHw?rel=0&w=500&h=284] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbhH4ON9BPQ?rel=0&w=500&h=284] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1VSMDeRdyU?rel=0&w=500&h=284] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk_IRkkCz2A?rel=0&w=500&h=284]