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Explore the life of Thomas Merton who was an American monk whose life transcended the monastery outside of Louisville where he live and prayed. Merton was a writer and voice for peace during the Viet Nam war and nuclear proliferation. He was also deeply concerned about the poor. His writings were very influential in the sixties, even as he sought out solitude and silence. Before his death he was interested in inter-religious dialogue, especially with Zen Buddhists.
Scott Sharp has been reading books by Thomas Merton since 1993 when he picked up Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander by chance at his local library. Since then, Merton has been a consistent literary conversation partner for Sharp, and was the theologian who most shaped his master’s thesis. When Sharp isn’t reading Merton, he spends his time as the executive director of Albuquerque Oasis.