As Lent begins today, reflections on the life and words of Thomas Merton. Amid the chaos of ultranationalism and disruption, we need to grow deeper, not more distracted. Elton Trueblood told us, "We shall never have a better world until we have better persons in it."In the insanity of this present moment, finding inner peace is not an escape, nor a contradiction. It is essential, to be able to hear thaT inner voice that will enable us to sift wheat from chaff, sense from nonsense, and hear the moral imperative that may spur us on to the right action rather than frantic and superficial distraction. Support the show

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