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shack in the woods

Where can I start with Thomas Merton? Was anyone here moved by his works?

Thread #4 - Thomas Merton edition

Ask questions, recommend books, discuss, anything related to the Gospels, the NT/OT, the Church, her history and her teachings, but keep it text-based as this is /lit/.

Skeptics, non-believers, other Christians and religious groups, perennialists, pagans, all are welcome, but let's at least attempt to keep the discussion reasonably civil and elevated.

Thought of the thread:

"Into this world, this demented inn, in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ has come uninvited. But because he cannot be at home in it – because he is out of place in it, and yet must be in it – his place is with those others who do not belong, who are rejected because they are regarded as weak; and with those who are discredited, who are denied the status of persons, and are tortured, exterminated. With those for whom there is no room, Christ is present in this world."

-Thomas Merton, "The Time of the End is the Time of No Room", from Raids on the Unspeakable

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