Daniel P. Horan
The Franciscan Heart of Thomas Merton
Daniel P. Horan, PhD, a longtime Thomas Merton scholar, professor, and author of The Franciscan Heart of Thomas Merton, sits down to discuss how the Franciscan tradition helped shape the journey and spirituality of Thomas Merton, one of the 20th century’s most influential contemplatives
This Communion of Saints
Life is change. But it is not antithetical to what came before, it is not a negation of that, or an elimination of it. In some ways, it might be a building upon it.
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We Must Always Pursue God
Thomas Merton said that what it means to be myself is to be my true self.
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Be Not Afraid
Jesus’s frequent refrain—“Do not be afraid”—should be our mantra of discipleship.
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Submit to the Will of God
What makes a son good is not what he says to his father, but what he does after the fact by working in the fields (Matthew 21:28–31).
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God’s Self-Offering
The love of Jesus Christ that leads to his willing embrace of the crucified earthly destiny that appeared before him is both a model for how we are called to love and a revelation of God’s self-offering of control out ...
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Control, Surrender, Loss
If love is the free surrender of one’s control, then suffering is the involuntary taking of that control away.
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