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May 2013

May 28, 2013

Sacred Silence

Today's post is by guest blogger Bob Sessions: Before Lori and I saw the Dalai...

May 26, 2013

With His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Louisville

What’s it like to see the Dalai Lama in person? After enjoying that privilege last...

February 2013

February 20, 2013

Louisville's Festival of Faiths

Today we come to the end of our series on Tibetan Buddhism in the Midwest....

February 09, 2013

Tibetan Buddhism, Midwestern Style

Inside the main hall of the Drepung Gomang Institute, gilded statues of the Buddha and...

November 2010

November 27, 2010

A Farewell to Thomas Merton

And so we come to the end of our journey with Thomas Merton. If you’re...

November 26, 2010

Some Suggestions for Further Reading

“For me to write is love; it is to inquire and to praise, or to...

November 24, 2010

Walking Around Shining Like the Sun

So from the perspective of these nearly two weeks of reflections on Merton, what is...

November 22, 2010

At The Abbey of Gethsemani

“Cistercian architecture explains many things about our rule and our life. A church [in this...

November 19, 2010

At the Thomas Merton Center

One of my favorite things about being a writer is getting the chance to ask...

November 18, 2010

Merton on Contemplation

So what is contemplation? It’s a word that Thomas Merton used again and again in...

November 17, 2010

A Most Unusual Monk

One has to have some sympathy for the abbots who directed the Abbey of Gethsemani...

November 16, 2010

Some Background on Thomas Merton

For today, some biographical information on our friend Thomas Merton, to set the stage for...

November 15, 2010

At a Busy Intersection in Louisville

In the middle of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, there stands a very unusual bronze plaque. Most...