I have been asked first to sit in meditation with a Buddhist group in San Francisco at the end of this month and then give them a talk on Thomas Merton and the dialogue with Buddhism Merton who early on in his career showed a keen interest in dialogue with the religions of Asia Hinduism Sufis

In a provocative op-ed this morning in the New York Times the Dalai Lama speaks of his 1968 encounter with Thomas Merton and the need for religions to highlight what unites us nbsp Interestingly Merton is often nbsp criticized by some Catholics for not being sufficiently Catholic towards the

Why do so many Catholics still distrust Thomas Merton Forty years ago today Thomas Merton a Trappist monk and perhaps the most popular American Catholic writer in history stepped out of a bathroom shower during a visit to Bangkok Slipping on the wet floor he grabbed a poorly wired fan for supp

nbsp Cambridge MA I am in the midst of my ldquo Krsna in Advent rdquo series mdash nbsp the first entry posted a few days ago the next to come in a few days mdash but I cannot help but interrupt to remember two great Christian intellectuals and writers who died forty years ago on Decembe

To mark what would have been Thomas Merton's 99th birthday, a reflection and poem from the great spiritual writer that appeared in our pages in 1963.

Robert King a retired philosophy and religion professor and academic dean, discovered only late in his academic career the contemplative dimension of Christianity