BOOK DISCUSSIONS

On a bi-monthly basis, IPP sponsors a book discussion, open to the public, at a local bookstore.  Books and discussion leaders are chosen by members and board members of IPP.  Past book selections include: For the Sake of Peace, Daisaku Ikeda; The Isaiah Effect, Greg Braden; Facing Evil: An Anthology, Paul Woodruff, et al; Israel and the Politics of Land: A Theological Study, Eugene March; The Dignity of Difference, Jonathon Sacks; The Unconscious Civilization, John Ralston Saul; Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder; On Being Human: Where Ethics, Medicine and Spirituality Converge by Daisaku Ikeda, René Simard, Guy Bourgeault;  Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina.

7 p.m. Feb. 23, 2006

Discussion of the book that

Thomas Merton couldn't publish

Please join us on Thursday night at 7 at Carmichaels
on Frankfort for a discussion of the book that Thomas
Merton couldn't publish in his lifetime. The
discussion will be led by Dr. Paul Pearson, Director
of the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine, and me. The
event is free and open to the public. Copies of the
book (which was first published about a year ago)will
be available for sale. This event is co-sponsored by
Interfaith Paths to Peace and the Center for Faith and
Action. For details call 214-7322.

In April of 1962, six months before the Cuban Missile
Crisis, Thomas Merton completed his now legendary
work, Peace in the Post-Christian Era. Just days
later, Merton received a letter from the Abbot General
of the Trappist Order forbidding him to publish
anything further on the topic of war and peace and the
manuscript was shelved and never published until its
appearance in paperback in 2004.

The discussion will explore the book’s profound
messagesrelated to nuclear weapons, and their
relevance in a
world now dominated by threats of nuclear, chemical
and biological terrorism.

 

For Details Call:
(502) 214-7322

Interfaith Paths to Peace | 425 S. Second Street | Louisville, KY 40202-1430
(502) 214- PEAC (7322) | Terry@InterfaithPathstoPeace.org