Chronology of Merton's life and world events (1915-1968)
Part I. Lessons from the Life and Teachings of Thomas Merton :
1. Becoming who we are / James Martin, S.J.
2. Meeting Thomas Merton for the first time / Mary Neill, O.P.
3. On spiritual exploration / Robert Ellsberg
4. How to be a friend / Gregory K. Hillis
5. Our expanded religious and spiritual horizons / Kevin Hunt, O.C.S.O. Sensei
6. What it means to be a person of dialogue / Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M.
7. How we understand our sexual lives / Kaya Oakes
Part II. Life Lessons in the Light of Merton :
1. On the hundredth anniversry of Thomas Merton's birth / Bishop Robert Barron
2. How Thomas Merton and the music of Keith Jarett changed my life / Kevin Burns
3. Anatomy of a conversion / Paula Huston
4. Conversion in Morningside Heights / Rabbi Phil Miller
5. Merton's death as seen from the home grounds / Br. Paul Quenon, O.C.S.O.
6. The restless, furious, quietly abiding friend of us all / Pico Iyer
7. Thomas Merton and the realization of us / Sylvia Boorstein
8. Merton on the spiritual promise of interreligious dialogue / Acharya Judith Simmer- Brown
9. The dazzling light within / Ilia Delio, O.S.F.
10. False self, true self : finding the real me/ Sue Monk Kidd
11. Thomas Merton is a dangerous fellow / Timothy McCormick
12. Merton's love affair with the unknown / Fr. John Julian, O.J.N.
13. Staunch friendship for the love of God / Rabbi David Zaslow.
