Join us for the next installment of the Robert A. Burns Lecture Series featuring guest speaker and Thomas Merton scholar, Dr. Bonnie Thurston.

Dr. Thurston was a founding member of the International Thomas Merton Society and served as its third president. She has written some 30 articles on Merton and has given retreats and lectured on Merton widely in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Europe. She edited Thomas Merton and Buddhism (Fons Vitae Press, 2007), Hidden in the Same Mystery: Thomas Merton & Loretto (Fons Vitae, 2010) and Thomas Merton on Eastern Meditation (New Directions, 2012). Her work on Merton has been translated into Dutch, German, Italian and Spanish. This event is sponsored by the College of Humanities' Religious Studies Program.
 

6:30 PM Merton Reading

Led by UA Creative Writing Professor Fenton Johnson
 

7:00 PM Keynote Presentation

Led by prominent Merton Scholar Dr. Bonnie Thurston

"The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason & analysis but first of all by living."

~ Thomas Merton