July 29, 2012 - 8:07pm
Visit Carmichael’s Bookstore this Thursday evening, May 31st, at 7pm for a special event featuring a new book by Sister Monica Weis, ‘The Environmental Vision of Thomas Merton’.
Human Beings differ in their beliefs of the Earth’s origin. Was it formed from a great combustion of concentrated energy? Did it grow from the back of an immense turtle? Did an ancient, Middle-Eastern deity sculpt it in 7 days? Is it billions of years old? Thousands?
July 29, 2012 - 7:55pm
Bellarmine University marks Black History Month with free lecture
The writings of the noted Trappist monk Thomas Merton will be celebrated with the annual Thomas Merton Black History Month Lecture this coming Wednesday, February 29 at Bellarmine University.
July 29, 2012 - 7:55pm
‘Spirituality in the City’ this weekend
Despite the endless miles of church-dotted landscape outside the metropolitan area, there is plenty of spirit to go around even in the city. In fact, Bellarmine University patron Thomas Merton famously experienced a kind of religious epiphany at the corner of Fourth and Walnut (now) Muhammad Ali in...
November 29, 2011 - 7:23pm
Herman should have known that Kentucky is famous for beautiful horses and fast women. Lexington got dibs on the horses, and Louisville ended up with everything else.
Poor Herman Cain. He came this close (gesturing with thumb and forefinger in near proximity) to getting the Republican nomination for the presidency. But it looks like he met his Waterloo, as it were, right here in Louisville, when he fell for the charms of a local woman. In what...
September 22, 2011 - 11:28am
Free lecture Friday night; more in-depth workshops on Saturday
Thomas Merton died more than 40 years ago, but his voice still resounds—and his visionary take on the pervasiveness of technology still startlingly prescient. Based on a quote from the famed monk’s 1968 work Faith and Violence, “Can contemplation still find a place in the world of...
