October 25, 2017

Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing by Victoria Sweet

Slow Medicine In Slow Medicine: The Way of Healing, Dr. Victoria Sweet reviews her training and formation as a doctor. She talks about how she came to appreciate the space and quality of time with patients that slow medicine allows. Her book is a collection of stories about her approach […]
October 7, 2017

On the Letters of Thomas Merton and Ernesto Cardenal

Cardenal meets Merton In the fall of 1957, Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal (1925-2020) traveled to rural Kentucky where he met Thomas Merton (1915-68) for the first time. Cardenal arrived as a novice monk at the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani where Merton had been a Trappist monk for fifteen […]