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Thomas Merton and the Strange Little God in My Head

As far as I know, C.S. Lewis mentioned Thomas Merton at least twice in his letters. Writing to Dom Bede Griffiths on 12/20/61, Lewis asked him, “Have you read anything by an American Trappist called Thomas Merton? I’m at present on his No Man Is an Island. It is the best new spiritual reading I’ve […]

To Be Further Clothed

Father Thomas McKenzie died on Monday, August 23rd, along with his 22-year-old daughter. They were just out of Nashville, headed southwest with an aim to stay the night in Shamrock, TX when they collided with a tractor-trailer. The finality and the suddenness of it hit me deeply. I remembered that when I was struggling in […]

Abracadabra

A Little Magic Now and Then is Relished By the Wisest Men My brother-and-sister-in-law recently got me into on N.D. Wilson’s podcast. If you’ve ever read his non-fiction, you know that he’s something of a Christian Platonist. He sees (rightly) that the grass in your backyard or the crumbling brick buildings downtown are imbued with […]

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