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From the Director’s Desk: Coming Together, Thinking Anew, Bridging Intergenerational Gaps
By Gabriel McMorland For forty-five years, the Thomas Merton Center has served as a resource hub for grassroots activists. In 2018, how do you think we can make more meaningful contributions to […]
Local activists meet across a 50 year divide
By Charles McCollester Among the Battle of Homestead programs planned for 2018 are two marking the 50th anniversary of the momentous year of 1968, You may be interested in participating in the […]
Down at the Ok Corral: A Meditation on American Violence
(Photo Caption: Participants in the Stop Banking the Bomb campaign converse with passers outside the PNC bank branch on Forbes Avenue in Squirrel Hill. The action took place on February 9. Photo […]
Reflections from TMC Director
By Gabriel McMorland The Thomas Merton Center started out the new year with a spirited protest against wage theft in high winds and single digit temperatures. As I write this, we’re preparing […]
Has the American State Been Captured?
By Neil Cosgrove Americans often express concern that their government has become too much in the thrall of ideologies, of ways of interpreting the world so extreme that the ideologues in question […]
Some Sort of Justice
By Emily Deferrari At midnight the bells began. A cacophony of Chinese wind chimes, and hand held bells, and sleigh bells, Sunday morning church bells, the sound of Eastern gongs, large bells […]
Jerusalem’s Recent History
By Emily Deferrari Some brief and relatively recent history: From the 7th into the 20th century, Jerusalem was administratively linked to Constantinople, the capital of the Turkish Empire. In 1917, during the […]
“Choosing the Way of the Gospel… Without Counting the Cost”
By Joyce Rothermel Celebrate spring’s coming renewal by renewing your spirits and deepening your desire to choose the way of the Gospel with Dr. Carol Zinn, a Sister of St. Joseph from […]
Class Cluelessness in America
By Jim McCarville Joan Williams book, White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America, has a lot to teach about the consequences of a “professional privilege” that disadvantages what she calls the […]
