The Merton Seasonal

This page lists all articles for the issues in question. For the contents of all volumes, see The Merton Seasonal Archive at The Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University. They note that ‘the full-text of volumes 1-38 is currently available [on their website], along with the book reviews, running bibliography and occasional articles, for subsequent volumes’.

Volume 47/4 (Winter 2022)

Paul M. Pearson, Christine M. Bochen, Jonathan Montaldo, Gregory Ryan and Bonnie Thurston, ‘Robert E. Daggy – Reminiscenses and Tributes’
J. T. Ledbetter, ‘Glory Be to God for Dappled Things’ [poem]
Gordon Oyer, ‘Hiking the Hallowed Ground of Herman the Hermit’
Christopher Mahon, ‘East Meets West’ [poem]
Glenn Amorosia, ‘Gun Culture, Mass Shootings and the Prophetic Witness of Thomas Merton’
Robert Weldon Whalen, ‘Getting with the Beat’, Review of Thomas Merton, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and the Protection of All Beings: The Correspondence by Bill Morgan
Gary P. Hall, ‘Prophetic Practice, Practival Prophecy’, Review of Open to the Full Dimension: Thomas Merton, Practical Theology, and Pastoral Practice by Dominiek Lootens
Julianne E. Wallace, ‘A Harmonious Collaboration’, Review of Words and Silences [CD & accompanying booklet] by Brian Harnetty
Paul M. Pearson, Recent Publications by and about Thomas Merton

Volume 47/3 (Fall 2022)

William J. Meegan, ‘The Maternal Ancestors of Thomas Merton’
Ed Davis, ‘Three Poems’ [poem]
Susan McCaslin, ‘The Monk and the Feminist: A Reflection on the Merton-Ruether Correspondence’
Bibhu Padhi, ‘Two Poems’ [poem]
Kathleen Tarr, ‘The Necessity of Pilgrimage’
Joseph Quinn Raab, ‘Expanding the Vision of Merton’s Church’, Review of Man of Dialogue: Thomas Merton’s Catholic Vision by Greg Hillis
Paul Pynkoski, ‘Encounters with the Stranger,’ Review of The Merton Annual, Volume 34, edited by Deborah Pope Kehoe and David Golemboski
Mark C. Meade, ‘A Meditative Month with Merton’, Review of Come into the Silence by Thomas Merton
Paul M. Pearson, Recent Publications by and about Thomas Merton

Volume 47/2 (Summer 2022)

Patrick F. O’Connell, ‘An Introductory Note’
Jim Forest, ‘A Pilgrimage of Illness’
Daniel Hassler-Forest, ‘Jim Forest: A Son’s Reflection’
Jim Forest, ‘Saying No to Caesar’
Gordon Oyer, ‘Remembering Jim Forest, Friend of Merton’
Michael Plekon, ‘Jim Forest: Peacemaker and Witness’
Michael Baxter, ‘What Jim Had to Offer Us’
‘Jim Forest: A Bibliography’
‘Jim Forest on Thomas Merton: A Chronological List of Publications’
Joseph Quinn Raab, ‘Of Tangerines and Tea’, Review of Eyes of Compassion: Learning from Thich Nhat Hanh by Jim Forest
Thomas T. Spencer, ‘Beneath the Varnished Surface’, Review of Signs of Hope: Thomas Merton’s Letters on Peace, Race, and Ecology by Gordon Oyer
Paul M. Pearson, Recent Publications by and about Thomas Merton

Volume 47/1 (Spring 2022)

Alan Kolp, ‘A Transforming Moment: The Pivotal Visions of Thomas Merton and Ilia Delio’
Stephan Young, ‘Seven Haiku’
Thomas T. Spencer, ‘“They Were Mine and I Theirs”: The Shared Vision of Humanity of Thomas Merton and Richard Wright’
Kay Lopez, ‘The Work of the Cell’ [poem]
Ron Dart, ‘Reading the Psalms: Thomas Merton, C. S. Lewis and Bede Griffiths’
David Belcastro, ‘A Captivating Capstone’, Review of Merton & Hinduism: The Yoga of the Heart edited by David M. Odorisio
Wayne E. Simsic, ‘Monastic Spirituality for Everyone’, Review of Thomas Merton: An Introduction to His Life, Teachings, and Practices by Jon M. Sweeney
Judith Valente, ‘Wise Teacher, Fellow Seeker, Spiritual Friend’, Review of Peace Smiles: Rediscovering Thomas Merton by Fintan Monahan
Paul M. Pearson, Recent Publications by and about Thomas Merton

Volume 46/4 (Winter 2021)

David M. Odorisio, ‘”Yes to Everyone”: Thomas Merton’s Radical Ecumenism and Inter-Monastic Mysticism of the Ground’
Antoinette Voûte Roeder, ‘Dying’ [poem]
J. T. Ledbetter, ‘Fifty Years and Counting’
Gerard Garrigan OSB, ‘Three Poems’
Paul Pynkoski, ‘Eyes to See and Ears to Hear: Dancing in Paradise with Merton and Cockburn’
Emma McDonald, ‘Engaging the Scriptures with Humor and Humanity’, Review of Notes on Genesis and Exodus by Thomas Merton
Christopher Pramuk, ‘Scouts on the Spiritual Frontier’, Review of The Seeker and the Monk: Everyday Conversations with Thomas Merton by Sophfronia Scott
Robert Grip, ‘The Prescient Merton’, Review of Thomas Merton: God’s Messenger on the Road toward a New World by Paul R. Dekar
Paul M. Pearson, Recent Publications by and about Thomas Merton

Volume 46/3 (Fall 2021)

David Golemboski, David, ‘Absurdity and Imagination in a Time of Upheaval’, Presidential Address – ITMS Seventeenth General Meeting
J. S. Porter, J. S., ‘Two Poems’ [poem]
Glenn Amorosia, Glenn, ‘Merton and Fénelon: Social Prophet’
Peter C. Venable, ‘Two Poems’ [poem]
Christopher Mahon, ‘“Free at Last, Free at Last”: A Faith Journey with Thomas Merton’
Lucien Miller, ‘Elective Affinities’, Review of Merton and Confucianism: Rites, Righteousness and Integral Humanity, edited with an introduction by Patrick F. O’Connell
Paul Pynkoski, ‘An Apostolate of Friendship’, Review of Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and the Greatest Commandment by Julie Leininger Pycior
Greg J. Ryan, ‘Corresponding with Grace and Honesty’, Review of A Focus on Truth: Thomas Merton’s Uncensored Mind by Patrick W. Collins
Paul M. Pearson, Recent Publications by and about Thomas Merton

Volume 46/2 (Summer 2021)

Thomas T. Spencer, ‘Portrait of the Writer as a Young Man: Thomas Merton’s Early Publications, 1931–1941’
Randy Cox, ‘Three Poems from the Hermitage’ [poem]
William Meegan, ‘The Paternal Ancestors of Thomas Merton: 1652–1968’
Josh Dugat, ‘Notes Recovered from a Search for Sanctity’ [poem]
John A. Ostenburg, ‘A Gethsemani Journal’
Bonnie Thurston, ‘This Spiritual Light – This Vision’, Review of Beholding Paradise: The Photographs of Thomas Merton edited by Paul M. Pearson
Michael W. Higgins, ‘A Singular Look at Religious Pluralism’, Review of Opening New Horizons: Seeds of a Theology of Religious Pluralism in Thomas Merton’s Dialogue with D. T. Suzuki by Joseph Quinn Raab
Padraic O’Hare, ‘Confronting Convention with Wisdom and Wit’, Review of The Merton Annual, Volume 33 edited by Deborah Pope Kehoe and Joseph Quinn Raab
Paul M. Pearson, Recent Publications by and about Thomas Merton