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Contemplative Reading and Thomas Merton with Sophfronia Scott
Contemplative Reading and Thomas Merton with Sophfronia Scott
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Length:
47 minutes
Released:
Feb 16, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Grace welcomes Sophfronia Scott, author of The Seeker and the Monk, and director of the MFA creative writing program at Alma College. Sophfronia and Grace discuss learning to have meaningful dialogue with books as you read, even when they were written by long-dead writers, and Sophfronia shares her wisdom on reading Thomas Merton and on the practice of reading contemplatively.
Released:
Feb 16, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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