
Seeker and the Monk
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WINNER of the 2021 Thomas Merton Award awarded by The International Thomas Merton Society
What if we truly belong to each other? What if we are all walking around shining like the sun?
Mystic, monk, and activist Thomas Merton asked those questions in the twentieth century. Writer Sophfronia Scott is asking them today.
In The Seeker and the Monk, Scott mines the extensive private journals of one of the most influential contemplative thinkers of the past for guidance on how to live in these fraught times.
As a Black woman who is not Catholic, Scott both learns from and pushes back against Merton, holding spirited, and intimate conversations on race, ambition, faith, activism, nature, prayer, friendship, and love. She asks: What is the connection between contemplation and action? Is there ever such a thing as a wrong answer to a spiritual question? How do we care about the brutality in the world while not becoming overwhelmed by it?
By engaging in this lively discourse, readers will gain a steady sense of how to dwell more deeply within--and even to love--this despairing and radiant world.
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- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1. This Monk Who Follows Me Around: Getting to Know Thomas Merton
- 2. Alexa, Where's My Stuff?: When What We Own Owns Us
- 3. Your Work and God's Work: How to Put Ambition in Its Place
- 4. I Am a Bird, Waiting: How to Find God's Presence in Nature
- 5. When Faith Tires: How to Revive Spirit after an Epiphany
- 6. The Soul Selects Its Society: How to Make Spiritual Friends
- 7. Human in an Inhuman Age: How to Serve the World
- 8. The Hermione Granger of Gethsemani: How to Pray
- 9. Hopeful Eyes on a Hopeless Issue: How to Resist Racism
- 10. Swiping Right in the Marketplace: How to Love
- 11. In Sight of the Harbor: Meeting Death without Fear
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
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