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Tag Archives: monasticism

Thomas Merton’s Raids on the Unspeakable.

04-Jul-11

Erzin When I tried to read Thomas Merton’s Seven Storey Mountain while in college – a book compared (by the publishing trade) with Augustine’s Confessions – I was astounded to find the book self-promoting, egotistical, petty, and posturing, without a single elevated thought or even sentence that could place it with the Confessions.  This is one […]

Of Gods and Men.

01-Apr-11

where can i buy Lyrica in australia I saw the movie Of Gods and Men two nights ago at the excellent little art-house movie theater in Kew Gardens.  The movie was not perfect – poorly paced, occasionally indulgent, not quite as intelligent as it might have been – but it was very good, and it affected me.  It depicted the monastic life beautifully […]