Episode 30: Antiwar Thomas Merton, The Early Years

A look through the spiritual classic "The Seven Storey Mountain" to find out what shaped Thomas Merton's views on war and how those views developed in the first half of his life. (Note: spoilers!)0:00 Intro3:13 Early life8:12 Leaving England/Cambridge (1934)15:48 Communism at Columbia---The Peace Strike and The Oxford Pledge22:23 Merton discovers the need for a spiritual life25:25 The "one truth people need to learn"29:09 Rumors of war---Signing up for the draft40:41 Merton's draft number gets called--discerning whether the war is just48:52 Goodbye to a loved one50:30 Thomas Merton: an enemy?Source text: Merton, Thomas. "The Seven Storey Mountain, An Autobiography of Faith." Introduction by Robert Giroux, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, Harcourt Inc., 1948. Find CAM here:  www.catholicsagainstmilitarism.comRSS feed: http://www.buzzsprout.com/296171Support the showFind CAM here:  https://catholicsagainstmilitarism.comRSS feed: http://www.buzzsprout.com/296171​Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/CAMpodcast