The Seeker and the Monk by Scott Sophfronia

The Seeker and the Monk by Scott Sophfronia

WINNER of the 2021 Thomas Merton Award awarded by The International Thomas Merton Society

What if we truly belong to each other? What if we are all walking around shining like the sun?

Mystic, monk, and activist Thomas Merton asked those questions in the twentieth century. Writer Sophfronia Scott is asking them today.

In The Seeker and the Monk, Scott mines the extensive private journals of one of the most influential contemplative thinkers of the past for guidance on how to live in these fraught times.

As a Black woman who is not Catholic, Scott both learns from and pushes back against Merton, holding spirited, and intimate conversations on race, ambition, faith, activism, nature, prayer, friendship, and love. She asks: What is the connection between contemplation and action? Is there ever such a thing as a wrong answer to a spiritual question? How do we care about the brutality in the world while not becoming overwhelmed by it?

By engaging in this lively discourse, readers will gain a steady sense of how to dwell more deeply within--and even to love--this despairing and radiant world.

Scott, Sophfronia: - Sophfronia Scott has nearly twenty years of experience as a professional writer, most of it spent at Time and People magazines. When she published her first novel, All I Need to Get By with St. Martin's Press in 2004, one prominent reviewer referred to her as potentially one of the best writers of her generation. Sophfronia holds a bachelor's degree in English from Harvard. In her current position as executive editor of The Done For You Writing & Publishing Company, she helps entrepreneurs and speakers to write books to promote their businesses. Sophfronia can be reached via her website, www.DoneForYouWriting.com.

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ISBN 13	9781506464961
ISBN 10	1506464963
Title	The Seeker and the Monk
Author	Scott Sophfronia
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	1517 Media
Year published	2021-03-16
Number of pages	240
Prizes	Commended for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Body/Mind/Spirit) 2021
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