All Episodes
Tuesdays with Merton Podcast — 70 episodes
Jessica Sun - Rain and the Rhinoceros: Advent in Palestine and Journeying with Justice
Byron D. Wratee - The Sound of the Genuine "True Self": Thomas Merton, Howard Thurman, and Mystical Anthropology
John Dickerson - Finding Thomas Merton on the Campaign Trail
Megan Way - Economics and Merton, Developing the Negatives
Jordan T. Jones - Thomas Merton meets James Cone: A Conversation That Never Happened
Judith Valente - In Their Own Words: The Monks Who Knew Merton
Harley Matthews - Merton and the Protestant Tradition
Vincent Pizzuto - Delicious Tranquility: Near Death Experiences and the Quietud Sabrosa
Ryan Bell - Pilgrims in a Polarized Church: Thomas Merton and Raymond Hunthausen
Estevan Rael-Gálvez with Nicki Gonzales - Native Bound-Unbound: A Pilgrimage through Silence
Susan Reynolds - Terrain of Memory: Mertonian Reflections of Spirit, Place and Violence in the Shadow of the Front Range
Ed Sellner - Kindred Spirits: Thomas Merton, Jack Kerouac, and Zen
Becky McIntyre and Sarah Fuller - Merton as Visual Artist and Creating Socially Conscious Art in the 21st Century
James Finley - Being A Healing Presence in a Wounded and Traumatized World
Rose Marie Berger - The Church has No Weapons: Merton's Influence on Catholic Nonviolence
Abbi Fraser - Merton in the Maryhouse Kitchen
Fr. William Hart McNichols & Christopher Pramuk - Offering Christ to a Broken World: Merton’s Advent Tidings of Great Joy
Steven P. Millies - Merton with Miłosz and Pasternak: Artistic Avenues of Faithful Resistance in Authoritarian Times
Gray Matthews - Contemplative Mayhem
Pycior, Julie Leininger - Despite Everything and Because Everything Is at Stake: Bearing Witness with the Help of Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day
David Odorisio - Lessons from the Lost Coast: Exploring Thomas Merton in California
Robert Ellsberg - 'It's the Direction that Matters': How Sister Wendy Beckett Changed Her Mind about Merton
Sophfronia Scott - Courageous Conversations on Death with Thomas Merton
Leslye Colvin - Merton: An Invitation to Unbind Him and Ourselves
Anne Pearson - White Man Writing on Racism: Thomas Merton and ”Letters to a White Liberal”
Ilia Delio - Merton’s Christophany and the Second Axial Monk
BONUS episode, Shannen Dee Williams - America’s Real Sister Act: Illuminating the Hidden History of Black Catholic Nuns in the African American Freedom Struggle
Cassidy Hall - Queering Thomas Merton
BONUS episode, Simone Campbell - Hunger for Hope: Contemplation and Political Action
BONUS episode, Sophia Park - Dancing with Thomas Merton in the Borderland
BONUS episode, Maria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer - Women in Merton’s Life: Notes on His Experience with the Feminine
Mark C. Meade - The Seven Storey Mountain at Seventy-Five: Classic or Déclassé?
BONUS episode: Christopher Pramuk’s Presidential Address for Sophia Comes Forth Reaching, the 18th General Meeting of the ITMS
Jim Robinson - Spirituality Sustainability and Social Justice: Embodying “Integral Ecology” with Thomas Merton and Rosemary Radford Ruether
Patrick F. O’Connell - Beyond the Blurbs: Thomas Merton and St. Augustine
Mary Frohlich, RSCJ - Merton as Disciple and Re-interpreter of St. John of the Cross
Bob Grip - Washington Watches the Monk II
Emma McDonald - Fully Human and Fully Real: Thomas Merton on Technology and Embodiment
David Golemboski - People that God Has Brought together: Thomas Merton on the Hope of Political Community Beyond Nationalism
2022-11-08 - Partners in the General Dance of the Spirit: Thomas Merton and Ilia Delio Evolving into the Grandeur of God
2022-10-11 - Julianne Wallace - Of Messengers of Peace: A Liturgy for Our World in the Voices of Merton and Francis
Daniel P. Horan, OFM - True and False Love: Thomas Merton’s Spirituality of the Restless
Malgorzata Poks - The Geography of Lograire as Thomas Merton’s Ultimate Autobiography
Gordon Oyer - Re-Visioning a Fragmented World: Learnings through Merton’s Letters on Social Change
Deborah Kehoe: Thomas Merton and Southern Writing
BONUS episode: Sr. Elena Malits, CSC, an interview by Jonathan Montaldo
Gregory K. Hillis: What Does Thomas Merton Have to Tell Us About Catholic Identity?
2022-02-08 - Steven P. Millies: Our Crisis of Authority and Thomas Merton
Doug Hertler - Merton, You and Me: The Reality of Life in the Paschal Mystery
Paul Pearson - ”I love beer, and, by that very fact, the world.” The Humor (and Humanity) of Thomas Merton
Kathleen Tarr - From the Inner Frontier to the Last Frontier: Thomas Merton‘s Alaska Journey
BONUS episode: Scott Russell Sanders - Reading Merton in the Rain
BONUS episode: Andrew Prevot—”Contemplation in Times of Crisis”
Sophfronia Scott -The Radio of Nature: Merton‘s Tuning Into God Outdoors
Judith Valente - Why We Still Read and Need Thomas Merton: A Personal Journey
BONUS epidode: David Golemboski—"Absurdity and Imagination in a Time of Upheaval"
Lynn R. Szabo - Poetry as Spiritual Direction with Thomas Merton and Denise Levertov
Jim Forest - An Army that Sheds No Blood: Thomas Merton’s Response to War
Michael W. Higgins - Merton and David Jones: Visionaries Both
Kathleen Deignan - Overshadowed: Thomas Merton and the Cloud of Unknowing
BONUS episode: Robert Ellsberg — "The Gate of Heaven Is Everywhere"
Bryan N. Massingale - Merton, Malcolm X, and Catholic Engagement with Black Lives Matter
BONUS episode: Anne Pearson - Thomas Merton, Black Lives Matter, and White Passivity
Christine M. Bochen - Created for Joy: Becoming Who We Are, Together
BONUS episode: “The Wound and the Witness: Merton and King and the Exercise of the Prophetic”
Jim Finley - Turning to Thomas Merton as a Trustworthy Guide in the Gentle Art of Contemplative Living
Jonathan Montaldo - Thomas Merton’s Contemplative Exercises for Entering the School of Our Lives
Christopher Pramuk - What Does God's Gender Have to Do with It? Merton's Awakening to the Feminine Divine
Bonnie Thurston - "...almost as if I had a sister": Thomas Merton & Etta Gullick
Daniel P. Horan, OFM - Thomas Merton and Black Lives Matter: Spirituality and Racial Justice for Our Time