Jon Sweeney

Jon M. Sweeney is an award-winning author and independent scholar who has been interviewed by the Dallas Morning News and The Irish Catholic, on radio with NPR and the BBC, and on national television at CBS Saturday Morning, and NBC’s “Morning Blend” and CBS Sunday Morning in Milwaukee. In addition to his three previous Meister Eckhart books written with Mark S. Burrows, Jon is the author of several books on Franciscan spirituality that have sold a combined quarter million copies. He’s also the author of Thomas Merton: An Introduction to His Life and Practices (St. Martin’s Essentials and Penguin Random House Audio, 2021); The Pope Who Quit (Doubleday/Image, 2014), optioned by HBO, and many others.

Jon is a partner at Monkfish Book Publishing, editor at Living City magazine, and the book reviewer at SpiritualityandPractice.com. He speaks at literary and religious conferences, in churches and synagogues and independent bookstores, and is a Roman Catholic married to a Reconstructionist rabbi. Their interfaith marriage has been profiled in national media. They live just outside Middlebury, Vermont.