November, 2015
Workshop on Contemplative Leadership
Nov. 11, 2015—When: Saturday, December 5 at 9:30am Where: Vanderbilt Divinity School, Room 122 Facilitator: Kat Baker, PhD, Associate Director, Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership in the Professions. Using the wisdom of Thomas Merton, this workshop will explore the perspectives and practices of contemplative leaders. Questions to be considered include: What is contemplation and how does it center...
Merton’s Jazz and Memories of a Friend, by Dick Sisto
Nov. 11, 2015—When: Thursday, December 3 at 7:00pm Where: Vanderbilt Divinity School, Reading Room 124 Disck Sisto (vibraphone and talking drum) Jeremy Allen (Bass). Dick Sisto is an internationally renowned vibraphonist, author of The Jazz Vibraphone Book pub. Hal Leonard and composer of the original music for the PBS DVD biographical film of Thomas Merton’s life by Morgan Atkinson....
Life at Gethsemani Abbey: Poetry of Thomas Merton and Paul Quenon
Nov. 11, 2015—When: Friday, December 4 at 7:00pm Where: Vanderbilt Divinity School Reading Room 124 Brother Paul Quenon has been a monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani for 57 years. He received his initial training as a novice under Thomas Merton. Originally from West Virginia, Paul has retained a love for hills, fields and woodlands. His poetry continues Merton’s...
A Hidden Wholeness: The Zen Photography of Thomas Merton
Nov. 11, 2015—When: December 4 – February 4, 2016 Where: Vanderbilt Divinity School, Room G-20 Observed as “Almost dizzying on aesthetic and intellectual levels” by Steve Euvino of the South Bend Tribune, “A Hidden Wholeness” is a collection of thirty five black and white images photographed at the Abbey of Gethsemane in Trappist, Kentucky by poet/monk/writer Thomas Merton. The collection...
Merton and Tao: An Experimental Theatrical Piece based on Thomas Merton’s The Way of Chuang Tzu
Nov. 11, 2015—When: Wednesday, December 2 at 6:30pm Where: St. Augustine’s Episcopal Chapel, 200 24th Avenue S. Conceived and directed by Bill Feehley,”Merton and Tao” is a piece of creative collaboration between Feehley, a Nashville actor, performer and retired Belmont professor, and Richard Gershman, an accomplished Los Angeles television director and Chairperson of the Department of Film at Watkins...
Thomas Merton and the Awful Silence
Nov. 11, 2015—When: Wednesday, December 2 at 4:00pm Where: Vanderbilt Divinity School, Room G-20 In a journal entry dated September 1st, 1949, Thomas Merton wrote, “If I am to be a saint–and there is nothing else that I can think of desiring to be–it seems that I must get there by writing books in a Trappist monastery. If I...