Articles by:

Spencer, Thomas.

MERTON ANNUAL ARTICLES

MERTON SEASONAL ARTICLES

Title (link to issue)

Link

Issue

Year

"'And God's Forgiveness": Frank Kowalski and Merton's Prayer for Peace."

Issue 31:4

(Winter 2006)

“Beneath the Varnished Surface.” Rev. of Signs of Hope: Thomas Merton's Letters on Peace, Race, and Ecology by Gordon Oyer.

Issue 47:2

(Summer 2022)

"Divine Wisdom Reaching Forth." Rev. of The Merton Annual, Volume 36.

Issue 49:2

(Summer 2024)

"'I Must Pray to Him for Aid Now': Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day's Diaries."

Issue 41:1

(Spring 2016)

"Joan Baez, Ira Sandperl, and Thomas Merton's Non-Violent Activism."

Issue 34:1

(Spring 2009)

"'Love for Africa … in Some Measure My Own': Thomas Merton's African Awakening."

Issue 48:4

(Winter 2023)

"Merton’s Call to Activism – 2015."

Issue 40:1

(Spring 2015)

“Merton’s Literary (and Spiritual) Lessons.”

Issue 39:3

(Fall 2014)

“One of ‘Tom’s Guardian Angels’." Rev. of Called To Serve: The Untold Story of Father Irenaeus Herscher, OFM by Kathy Petersen Cecala.

Issue 44:4

(Winter 2019)

"Portrait of the Writer as a Young Man: Thomas Merton's Early Publications, 1931-1941."

Issue 46:2

(Summer 2021)

"‘Sobornost’: Thomas Merton’s Russian Influences."

Issue 45:2

(Summer 2020)

“Something ‘Hot and Abstract’: Thomas Merton, Mary Lou Williams and the Spirituality of Jazz.”

Issue 43:3

(Fall 2018)

“‘They Were Mine and I Theirs’: The Shared Vision of Humanity of Thomas Merton and Richard Wright.”

Issue 47:1

(Spring 2022)

“Thomas Merton and the Kennedys.”

Issue 37:1

(Spring 2012)

"'Tom's Guardian Angels': Merton's Franciscan Mentors."

Issue 26:2

(Summer 2001)

The Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University

Articles by:

Spencer, Thomas.