Thomas Merton: Responding to Listener Questions

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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On this episode, Jim and Kirsten answer questions about Thomas Merton that were submitted by the listeners during the airing of the 1st season. The transcript for this episode can be found here. To learn more about James Finley, visit jamesfinley.org Turning to the Mystics is a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation. We'd love to hear your thoughts, comments or feedback. To do so, email us at [email protected] Have a question you’d like Jim or Kirsten to answer on a future episode? Email us: [email protected] or, send us a voicemail: cac.org/voicemail This podcast is made possible, thanks to the generosity of our donors. If you would love to support the ongoing work of the Center for Action and Contemplation and the continued work of our podcasts, you can donate at cac.org/podcastsupport Thank you!

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation.
0:04.4	To learn more, visit cacac.org.
0:08.9	Greetings, I'm Jim Finley.
0:11.8	And I'm Kirsten Oates. Welcome to turning to the Mystics.
0:17.0	Welcome to our first question and response session for turning to the Mystics,
0:29.4	where we'll be reflecting on questions that have come in about season one where we've been
0:35.2	turning to Thomas Merton as our mystic.
0:38.2	Jim, I just wanted to start by thanking you so much for this podcast. All the emails we've gotten. you've been
0:45.0	and all the emails we've gotten show a lot of support and gratitude for what you've been doing.
0:48.0	And for those of us listening to this in real time,
0:52.0	you'll recognize that from the beginning of this
0:55.2	podcast to where we are now, life's changed a lot for Jim personally, with the loss of his wife,
1:01.9	and then also for all of us with the coronavirus so Jim I wanted to thank you for hanging in there and for
1:09.0	continuing to give us the gift of your teaching. I also wanted to thank everyone who sent in a
1:15.3	question and gave us some feedback. It's been so helpful to hear from you. So thank you
1:21.4	for taking the time and making the effort to connect with us. It's
1:25.6	been an incredible response and we're grateful for the community that's listening to this
1:31.4	podcast. We had so many great questions. We've
1:34.6	decided to do two sessions of question and response. This first one will be
1:40.7	looking more at content questions around Thomas Merton's teachings and the second one
1:47.7	had more questions about practice but before we begin I just wanted to note that a lot of these questions were very personal and very vulnerable and we're so grateful for that, a willingness to share your lives and Jim will be looking to
2:06.8	respond with these deep truths that open up the personal to the universal.
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