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Contemplative Reading and Thomas Merton with Sophfronia Scott

Contemplative Reading and Thomas Merton with Sophfronia Scott

FromOld Books with Grace


Contemplative Reading and Thomas Merton with Sophfronia Scott

FromOld Books with Grace

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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

Titles in the series (66)

Listening to the past can help us to understand our present. Dr. Grace Hamman, medievalist and writer, guides listeners to approach often intimidating works of literature and theology and learn to ask questions of our current age. Let‘s read old books together and discover truths about God and ourselves.