Promotes an understanding and appreciation of the character of Thomas Merton and encourages study and research that will help to make better known the unique contribution he has made to the literature of spirituality.

Short biobibliographical entry in the Columbia Encyclopedia.

Article by Shaul Magid, professor of Jewish philosophy, who is interested in Merton's piety. [Cross Currents]

The official site of the Conference, titled Revelation of Justice, Revolution of Love: Thomas Merton's Message for a New Millennium, to be held June 9-12, 2005 at the University of San Diego.

Article by Alan Altany asks what Merton was seeking in his exploration of Buddhism. [Hundred Mountain]

Supports the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine College and is dedicated to raising awareness of the spiritual discipline and contemplative practices of Thomas Merton. Mission, programs, publications, news.

Brief introduction, quotations.

Links to web pages and other resources on Thomas Merton.

The Merton Archives at St. Bonaventure University is one of the most important repositories of Merton materials worldwide. Its holdings include manuscripts and typescripts of his earliest journals, along with drafts of books and articles, letters, association copies of printed materials and other special items.

The Thomas Merton Center is the official repository of Merton's artistic estate which includes over twelve hundred photographs and eight hundred drawings in addition to his writing. The Center archives over forty-five thousand Merton-related materials.

Web site dedicated to Thomas Merton and includes Merton retreats, journals, and links.

Founded to promote interest in and study of Thomas Merton and his concerns throughout the British Isles.

A collection of poems honoring the Virgin Mary written by Thomas Merton. Includes a page of photos of Merton.

An essay by Dr. Charles T. Davis.

Transcript of a radio broadcast in which John Russell examines Thomas Merton's life and work. Lawrence Cunningham and Monica Furlong, two of Merton's biographers, and Father Michael Casey, an Australian Trappist monk, are interviewed. Includes rare archival material of Merton speaking only hours before he died in Bangkok in 1968. [Radio National, Australian Broadcasting Corporation]

This essay by Sister Marie de Lourdes discusses Thomas Merton's inner and outer journeys that led from a youthful attempt to escape the world via the dark night of divine unknowing to a mature effort to fathom God's presence at both the world's heart and its periphery. [Spirituality Today 41.2]

This article by Eric J. Scheske argues that Merton, Salinger, and Kerouac helped shape the youth movements of the 1960s and that they ended up contributing to the unrest of that era. [Touchstone Magazine]