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The Thomas Merton Foundation
Supports the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine College and is dedicated to raising awareness of the spiritual discipline and contemplative practices of Thomas Merton. Mission, programs, publications, news.
http://www.mertonfoundation.org/
International Thomas Merton Society
Promotes an understanding and appreciation of the character of Thomas Merton and encourages study and research that will help to make better known the unique contribution he has made to the literature of spirituality.
http://www.merton.org/ITMS/index.asp
Thomas Merton Center
The Thomas Merton Center is the official repository of Merton's artistic estate which includes over twelve hundred photographs and eight hundred drawings in addition to his writing. The Center archives over forty-five thousand Merton-related materials.
http://www.merton.org/
Thomas Merton: Celebrity Monk
Transcript of a radio broadcast in which John Russell examines Thomas Merton's life and work. Lawrence Cunningham and Monica Furlong, two of Merton's biographers, and Father Michael Casey, an Australian Trappist monk, are interviewed. Includes rare archival material of Merton speaking only hours before he died in Bangkok in 1968. [Radio National, Australian Broadcasting Corporation]
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/enc/stories...
Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Founded to promote interest in and study of Thomas Merton and his concerns throughout Britain.
http://www.thomasmertonsociety.org/
Thomas Merton: Man of Many Journeys
This essay by Sister Marie de Lourdes discusses Thomas Merton's inner and outer journeys that led from a youthful attempt to escape the world via the dark night of divine unknowing to a mature effort to fathom God's presence at both the world's heart and its periphery. [Spirituality Today 41.2]
http://www.spiritualitytoday.org/spir2day/...
Merton, Thomas
Short biobibliographical entry in the Columbia Encyclopedia.
http://www.bartleby.com/65/me/Merton-T.htm...
Thomas Merton Monk and Poet
Web site dedicated to Thomas Merton and includes Merton retreats, journals, and links.
http://edge.net/~dphillip/Merton.html
Thomas Merton - Resources for Catholic Educators
Links to web pages and other resources on Thomas Merton.
http://www.silk.net/RelEd/merton.htm
Monastic Liberation as Counter-Cultural Critique in the Life and Thought of Thomas Merton
Article by Shaul Magid, professor of Jewish philosophy, who is interested in Merton's piety. [Cross Currents]
http://www.crosscurrents.org/magid.htm
The Thomas Merton Connection
Article by Alan Altany asks what Merton was seeking in his exploration of Buddhism. [Hundred Mountain]
http://www.hundredmountain.com/Pages/pageo...
Three American Sophomores: The Restlessness of Thomas Merton, J. D. Salinger, and Jack Kerouac
This article by Eric J. Scheske argues that Merton, Salinger, and Kerouac helped shape the youth movements of the 1960s and that they ended up contributing to the unrest of that era. [Touchstone Magazine]
http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_vi...
Thomas Merton's Marian Poetry
A collection of poems honoring the Virgin Mary written by Thomas Merton. Includes a page of photos of Merton.
http://www.udayton.edu/mary/resources/poet...
Ninth General Meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society - 2005
The official site of the Conference, titled Revelation of Justice, Revolution of Love: Thomas Merton's Message for a New Millennium, to be held June 9-12, 2005 at the University of San Diego.
http://www.sandiegomerton.org/
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