With Insights and Warnings from Thomas Merton, Marshall McLuhan and Jacques Elull

Saturday, March 22, 2025
9AM – 2PM Central
Parmer Hall at Dominican University
7900 W. Division, River Forest, IL

$15 donation includes lunch and refreshment.

Free parking and Parmer Hall is handicapped accessible.

Registration is recommended here.

Friends,

Thomas Merton, OCSO, (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist and scholar of comparative religion. He was a monk in the Trappist Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, near Bardstown, Kentucky, living there from 1941 to his death.

Shem Center is honored to help promote a presentation of the International Thomas Merton Society (ITMS) at the Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois on March 22, 2025. Please consider joining us.

— Joseph Kilikevice

ITMS Group on Facebook is here.

Explore with us the ramifications of "Redeemed and Unredeemed Technology and its Technocrats: The Cautious Wisdom of Thomas Merton and Jacques Ellul" with Vaughn Fayle, OFM, and "Thomas Merton and Marshall McLuhan Discuss the Rise of Christian Nationalism in America" with Richard Putz. Father of Media Studies Marshall McLuhan, philosopher of technology Jacques Ellul, and Trappist monk and theologian Thomas Merton wrote presciently about the benefits and perils of emerging technologies, which are having a profound impact on our society.

For more information: cc.itms@gmail.com or 773-447-3989.

Co-sponsored by the Sienna Center of Dominican University & Chicago Chapter International Thomas Merton Society