Recommended Reading: Wilderness Perspective

In April of 1976, I visited the monastery of Gethsemani outside of Louisville, Kentucky, when Meredith were in seminary. I met and spoke to the abbot who knew Thomas Merton. It was a transformative period in my life when I was searching for models on how to engage with my ever-spinning world.

It is as true today as then, even more so. The truth underneath Merton’s genius is that the spiritual disciplines, no matter where practiced, give us the perspective and rootedness to see God in the greater world and where he may be working. It is an inward awareness and foundation point but engages us fully with the daily life of every one of us. It breaks the spell of social media and its cousins and gives clarity to a world of injustice, suspicion and divisiveness.

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Wilderness Perspective: A Monastic Ethos for a Militant Age, by Patrick Pierson