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In the preface to the book by William Johnston, The Mysticism of the Cloud of Unknowing, Thomas Merton speaks about objections to apophatic mysticism, including the objection by those who are suspicious of  “introversion.”   He says, “A final objection…

Dorothee Soelle, Against The Wind:  Memoir of a Radical Christian   “My theological fathers, like Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann, still spend much time and energy working in local congregations, attending ministers’ conferences, or answering letters of irate pastors. They…

Jewish tradition says that the splitting of the Red Sea was the greatest miracle ever performed. It was so extraordinary that on that day even a common servant beheld more than all the miracles beheld by Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel…

“Words, after all, are an illusion until they take on flesh.  It is the doing that sings.” Murray Bodo, The Way of St. Francis: The Challenge of Franciscan Spirituality for Everyone, p. 122.

” Ethics is how we behave when we decide we belong together.” –Brother David Steindl-Rast  

A Seventeenth-Century Nun’s Prayer   Lord, Thou knowest better than I myself Know that I am growing older and Will some day be, old. Keep me from the fatal habit of thinking I must say something on every subject and…

Reading the Mystics:   A famous old tale I just made up! ……. The disciple complained to the master that it was too hard to read the old mystics.  She said, “It’s dry and boring, and besides there is so much…

      When in the Soul of the Serene Disciple by Thomas Merton   When in the soul of the serene disciple With no more Fathers to imitate Poverty is a success, It is a small thing to say…