Matthew J. Milliner

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  • Jun 17, 2025
    In 1966, a Trappist monk from Kentucky’s Abbey of Gethsemani had an affair with a nursing student. Her name was Margie, and you already know his. Thomas Merton never intended...
  • Jun 3, 2025
    The Christian mystics had also always been there, until it seemed as if they weren’t. The Quietist controversy of the late seventeenth century put mysticism under...
  • Mar 18, 2025
    A visit to Mary’s tomb outside Jerusalem in no way exhausts Christianity’s underground dimensions. The next day I found myself in Bethlehem. The journey from Jerusalem...