On Spiritual Friendships

Anam Cara, Thomas Merton, and Pursuing Relationships That Enlighten Our Lives
Sophfronia Scott

Leader

Sophfronia Scott

Sophfronia Scott is a novelist, essayist, and leading contemplative thinker whose book The Seeker and the Monk: Everyday Conversations with Thomas Merton won the 2021 Thomas Merton “Louie” Award from the International Thomas Merton Society. She holds a BA in English from Harvard and an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her latest book is Wild, Beautiful, and Free, a historical novel set during the Civil War. Sophfronia’s other books include Unforgivable Love, Love’s Long Line, and This Child of Faith: Raising a Spiritual Child in a Secular World, co-written with her son Tain. Sophfronia is the founding director of Alma College’s MFA in Creative Writing, a low-residency graduate program based in Alma, Michigan.

Date

May 17 2025

Time

UK Time
10:30 am - 4:00 pm

Location

The Meditatio Centre & ONLINE

Though Thomas Merton craved the solitude of a hermitage and the silence in which “God shines there and is immediately found,” his mysticism and writing life were deeply fed and influenced by special friendships that he developed both in person and through a prolific correspondence that connected him to writers and spiritual thinkers all over the world.

Sophfronia will discuss how we can find and nurture similar bonds today to the great benefit of our lives and work.

Please join us to spend the day looking at this beautiful topic together, along with fellow meditators and seekers. 

We will have the opportunity to meditate together and be together and drink tea and coffee.

Sophfronia Scott

Leader

Sophfronia Scott

Sophfronia Scott is a novelist, essayist, and leading contemplative thinker whose book The Seeker and the Monk: Everyday Conversations with Thomas Merton won the 2021 Thomas Merton “Louie” Award from the International Thomas Merton Society. She holds a BA in English from Harvard and an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her latest book is Wild, Beautiful, and Free, a historical novel set during the Civil War. Sophfronia’s other books include Unforgivable Love, Love’s Long Line, and This Child of Faith: Raising a Spiritual Child in a Secular World, co-written with her son Tain. Sophfronia is the founding director of Alma College’s MFA in Creative Writing, a low-residency graduate program based in Alma, Michigan.

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