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SUMMARY:Spark My Muse Book Club Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Register here for this discussion led by Lisa Colon Delay. \nWhat if we truly belong to each other? What if we are all walking around shining like the sun? \nMystic\, monk\, and activist Thomas Merton asked those questions in the twentieth century. Writer Sophfronia Scott is asking them today. \nIn 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. \nAs 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? \nBy 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. \nSophfronia Scott is a novelist\, essayist\, and leading contemplative thinker whose work has appeared in Time\, People\, O: The Oprah Magazine\, and numerous other outlets. When her first novel\, All I Need to Get By\, was published\, she was nominated for best new author at the African American Literary Awards and hailed by Henry Louis Gates Jr. as “one of the best writers of her generation.” Her other books include Unforgivable Love\, Love’s Long Line\, and This Child of Faith. Scott holds degrees from Harvard and the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives in Sandy Hook\, Connecticut. \nAsk questions of the author\, discuss the material\, find out more about Thomas Merton and the book “The Seeker and the Monk” during our time together. 
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