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Seeing with the ‘eye of the soul’

Jane Christmas February 19, 2015

Not many books use a potato to explain spiritual wholeness but Father Luke Bell manages to do this and more inThe Meaning of Blue: Recovering a Contemplative Spirit. As a monk-priest at Quarr Abbey on the UK’s Isle of Wight, Bell is well placed to teach us about contemplation and potatoes.

Thomas Merton icon by William Hart McNichols.

Thomas Merton: Still relevant after 100 years

Jane Christmas January 30, 2015

January 31 marks the 100th anniversary of Thomas Merton’s birth. In the same way that people remember where they were when John Kennedy was assassinated, I can recall with intense clarity the moment I discovered Merton.

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