Reposted by @dpowelloct.bsky.social
The poet, writer and monk Thomas Merton wrote a deliciously subversive "confession of crimes against the state" in 1960--
in middle of the Cold War, as the McCarthy era was just beginning to ebb, and the Vietnam War had already been underway for five years. He knew from jingoism.
This is a treat:
lifeisasacredtext.com
Merton's Confession of Crimes Against the State
spiritual resistance looks like a lot of things
