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  April 1, 2019

  New film teaser, DAY OF A STRANGER

  Many of you know I’ve been working on my directorial debut film, Day of a Stranger: the first film about Thomas Merton’s final years in his own words. For this short film, Patrick Shen and I recently took a winter trip to the hermitage and The Thomas Merton Center for filming, and from that have pieced…

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  November 8, 2018

  Merton’s Voice For Today

  In a world of destruction, ignorance, and falsities—there is not only a place for love, but love is the only answer…

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  November 6, 2018

  Carl McColman Interviews Cassidy Hall

  How did you get inspired to create a film about Thomas Merton and his hermitage?

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  February 12, 2018

  The Uncertainty of Silence

  (This will be among the many essays featured in the forthcoming book Notes on Silence that I’m co-authoring with Patrick Shen which can be purchased here.) “…I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone…” Rainer Maria Rilke I was around 8 years old when I began to have reoccurring dreams about…