Signs of Hope: Merton's Letters on Race, Peace, and Ecology* Catholic Media Association Award Winner Biography * In the best researched book in amiable prose and most relevant exposition in years about Thomas Merton, Gordon Oyers detailed review of Mertons personal letters that transcend conflicting perspectives on racial justice is ground breaking!Jonathan Montaldo, Bridges to Contemplative Living with Thomas Merton In Signs of Hope Gordon Oyer distills for the reader timely insights from Thomas Mertons

serves as Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development

This breathtakingly beautiful

Topics include the found­ing mythology of the United States—with its emphasis on individualism to the detriment of the common good—and poverty as a catalyst for loneliness

and often conflicting issues that are found within biblical scholarship today

With Burning Hearts

is Ignacio Ellacuria Professor of Catholic Social Thought at Georgetown University

“A product of several years of collaborative palaver

he focuses on biblical stories

was the author of many Orbis books

co-president

" —Christy Berghoef

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