TAN Direction The Spiritual Masters: Thomas à Kempis

TAN Publisher Conor Gallagher and Fr. Robert Nixon investigate the life and works of  Thomas à Kempis, the humble author of the second-bestselling book of all time, The Imitation of Christ. Discover how we know his name today, despite his wish to remain anonymous, and why this amazing man is not known as Saint Thomas à Kempis.

Meet Your Hosts ​

Conor Gallagher is the CEO of TAN Books, an author, speaker and podcast host. Most recently he created Well-Ordered Family, a 6-part family management system to help you reclaim order and clarity in your family life. Using tried and true business tools, Well-Ordered Family provides coaching services to create customized plans for your family to optimize its potential.

He recently launched The Conor Gallagher Show, to explore thought-provoking topics of eternal consequence with fascinating guests. His books include Still Amidst the StormParenting for EternityWell-Ordered FamilyYou Are Never Too Busy, and You Have Only One Problem.

Conor and his wife Ashley are the proud parents of 16 children and the grandparents of two.

Fr. Robert Nixon, OSB, is a monk of the Abbey of the Most Holy Trinity, New Norcia, Western Australia.  There he serves as Director of the Institute for Benedictine Studies.  He is a retreat master and liturgist. His interests include Medieval Latin literature, especially the lives of the saints.

Podcast Episodes:​

Thomas à Kempis Part 1: Historical Background

Join Conor Gallagher and Fr. Robert Nixon for a fascinating discussion on the life of Thomas à Kempis, the 15th-century German-Dutch canon regular and author of The Imitation of Christ. Explore his journey from Germany to the Netherlands, the influence of the Brethren of the Common Life, his prolific years

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Thomas à Kempis Part 2: The Imitation of Christ

Fr. Robert Nixon joins Conor Gallagher to discuss the origin and spiritual depths of Thomas à Kempis’s masterpiece, The Imitation of Christ. Learn the original purpose and audience for the work that St. Ignatius of Loyola read daily and that St. Thomas More declared to be one of the three

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Thomas à Kempis Part 4: Meditations on Death

Meditations on Death is an eternity-focused and eternally relevant narrative that has at last been translated by the great Fr. Robert Nixon from the original Latin into the breathtakingly vivid English edition from TAN Books. St. Benedict says we should “keep death daily before our eyes.” How can we do

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Thomas à Kempis Part 5: A Model for Holiness

Join TAN Publisher Conor Gallagher and Fr. Robert Nixon in this final discussion on the great spiritual master, Thomas à Kempis. Consider what the humble listener can take away from this series discussing his life and greatest works. Ponder the virtues and charisms this great man grasped and exhibited throughout

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