By Neil Cosgrove It isn’t nostalgic feelings for print journalism that convinces us the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette must hold onto its 150 reporters, photographers, artists, page designers, web and copy editors, and pay […]
Fed Up P-G Journalists Challenge Paper’s Owner
How to Lend Support to the Post-Gazette’s Journalists
By Neil Cosgrove The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh is asking our readers to remind the owners and management of the Post-Gazette of their “civic responsibility” as stewards of a 231-year-old newspaper that […]
Meet Bob Wilson, New TMC Board Member
(Photo of Bob Wilson, provided by Joyce Rothermel) By Joyce Rothermel Through the Merton Center, one has the great privilege of meeting and getting to know many inspiring fellow travelers. For those […]
Renew Your Membership or Join the Merton Center Now
March is member renewal month at the Merton Center! If your membership has expired, you will likely find a letter asking you to renew in your mailbox soon. Has it been awhile […]
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 […]
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