Thomas Merton’s quote “A tree gives glory to God by being a tree” is a timeless lesson on authenticity, self-acceptance, ...

Last month, in the wake of the horrific violence in the Middle East and the ongoing war in Ukraine, I wrote about how the Trappist monk, author and social critic Fr. Thomas Merton's thinking about the ...

Thomas Merton was unlucky to be born in France, not long after the outbreak of World War 1. He was unlucky that his mother died of cancer when he was only six, and unlucky again when his father died ...

The author and monk Thomas Merton visited Alaska from Sept. 17 to Oct. 2, 1968. He was en route to Bangkok for a conference, where he died unexpectedly on Dec. 10. Credit: Thomas Merton Center / ...