W.L. Lyons Brown Library
Thomas Merton Center
Bellarmine University
Thomas Merton Elderhostels
"Week with Thomas Merton" Elderhostel
The Spring 2009 "Week with Thomas Merton" Elderhostel will be held from Sunday 1st March, 2009 until Friday 6th March, 2009. For further details contact Linda Bailey on (502) 452 8161 or by e-mail: lbailey@bellarmine.edu or visit the Elderhostel website. The Fall 2009 Merton Elderhostel will be held from Sunday 11th October, 2009 until Friday 16th October, 2009.
"A Persistent Peace: One Man's Struggle for a Nonviolent World"
Wednesday 28th January, 7 pm
Frazier Hall, Bellarmine University
Free and Open to the Public
Jointly sponsored with Interfaith Paths to Peace

John Dear, S.J. is a Jesuit priest, pastor, peace activist, organizer, lecturer, retreat leader, and the author/editor of 20 books on peace and justice, including Living Peace, published by Doubleday in 2001, and Mohandas Gandhi: Essential Writings, published by Orbis in 2002. In 2008 he published his autobiography, A Persistent Peace: One Man's Struggle for a Nonviolent World, and Put Down Your Sword.
From 1998 until December 2000, he served as the executive director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the largest interfaith peace organization in the United States. He has also worked in homeless shelters, soup kitchens, and community centers around the country; traveled in war zones around the world, including most recently Iraq and Palestine; lived in El Salvador, Guatemala and Northern Ireland; been arrested over 75 times in acts of civil disobedience; and spent nearly a year in prison for a Plowshares disarmament action. He currently lives in New Mexico where he is the pastor of churches in Cimarron, Springer, Maxwell, Eagle Nest, Tinaja, Reyado, and Paolo Blanco.
Thursday 19th February, 2009, 7 pm
Frazier Hall, Bellarmine University
Free and Open to the Public

Her education also includes a B.A. in sociology from the University of Connecticut, an M.S. in education from Southern Connecticut University, a J.D. from Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University with bar admissions in Georgia in 1984 and Florida in 1991, and a Ph.D. in Religion (Ethics) from Vanderbilt University. In addition to numerous papers and articles, Dr. Holmes has penned four books: Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church, Race and the Cosmos: An Invitation to View the World Differently, A Private Woman in Public Spaces: Barbara Jordan's Speeches on Ethics, Public Religion and Law, and Liberation and the Cosmos: A Conversation with the Elders (Fortress, November 2008).
Jim Douglass
"Merton, JFK and the Unspeakable"
Tuesday 24th March, 2009, 7 pmCralle Theater, Bellarmine University
Free and Open to the Public
Jim Douglass is known for his
theological writing and his activism in the area of non-violent resistance to
war and especially nuclear arms. He was a friend of Daniel Berrigan and Dorothy
Day. He served as a theological advisor on conscientious objection and nuclear
war at the Second Vatican Council, and first met Merton while a professor at
Bellarmine College. He is the author of
Resistance and Contemplation: The Way of Liberation,
The
Nonviolent Coming of God, and
JFK
and the Unspeakable (Orbis 2008).
The Paradox of Place: Thomas Merton's Photography

The exhibit of Merton's photographs celebrating the 40th Anniversary (1963-2003) of the Thomas Merton Collection at Bellarmine University is now a permanent exhibit displayed in the W. L. Lyons Brown Library on the Bellarmine University campus. This exhibit focuses on the places Merton visited in his final travels of 1968 including California, Alaska and Asia and the contrast with his photographs of Gethsemani and his hermitage.
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Financial assistance is needed to assist with funding these
special events at the Thomas Merton Center. If you would be interested in
assisting with funding, or becoming a major sponsor for one of these events
please contact:
Dr Paul Pearson on (502) 452 8177 or by e-mail:
pmpearson@bellarmine.edu
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Merton Center at Bellarmine University. All rights reserved.
Photographs copyright of the Merton Legacy Trust. Not to be used without written permission.