New Nouwen Release, with Michael Christensen and Rebecca Laird
Spiritual Formation: Following the Movements of the Spirit just released. Available at our shopcart or call Daybreak Books & Media toll free: 1-800-853-1412.
Henri Nouwen understood the spiritual life as a journey of faith and transformation that is deepened by accountability, community, and relationships. Though he counseled many people during his lifetime, his principles of spiritual formation were never written down. Now, Michael Christensen, one of Henri's longtime students, and Rebecca Laird have taken his famous course in spiritual formation and supplemented it with his unpublished writings to create this series on Henri Nouwen's thoughts on the Christian life.
The first book in the series, Spiritual Direction, introduced readers to Henri's core concepts and how to live the questions of the spiritual life. Spiritual Formation, the second in this series of three*, reveals Henri's wise advice on how to live out the five classical stages of spiritual development. Featuring a unique visio divina to help guide and focus prayer, this volume teaches us how to move from the mind to the heart and to live there in the center - the place where God dwells.
HarperCollins, hardcover, 157 pages, eight color plates.
Released July 2010.
*Note from Michael Christensen and Rebecca Laird: "The third volume, Spiritual Discernment, on reading the signs of daily life, is next. Each volume stands alone and can be read without having read the others. Yet together they constitute a spiritual trilogy by Henri Nouwen."
Henri Nouwen: The Cross Currents Interviews
Windborne Productions release 1995 interviews.
Brian C. Stiller, host of Vision TV's weekly broadcast Cross Currents (1994-1998), explores the heart of Nouwen's passionate message of faith in these insightful and penetrating interviews. These two spiritual leaders challenge each other with a fresh understanding of the contribution their different religious traditions have made to 20th Century Christianity.
Filmed on location in 1995 at Nouwen's home at the L'Arche Daybreak community.
Donate $120 or more to support the work of the Henri Nouwen Society and receive a free copy of this inspiring film. Limited offer.
Produced by Windborne Productions; directed by Karen Pascal for Vision TV.
Length: 50:00
Professor Michael W. Higgins to write the Authorized Biography of Henri J.M. Nouwen
The Henri Nouwen Legacy Trust is delighted to announce that award-winning author and academic Michael W. Higgins has been named the Authorized Biographer of Henri J.M. Nouwen.
Professor Higgins is currently Senior Executive in Residence at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut. He is past president of St. Jerome's University in the University of Waterloo, Ontario and of St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
A prolific and distinguished writer, Professor Higgins is the author of several books, including the award-winning Heretic Blood: The Spiritual Geography of Thomas Merton; Stalking the Holy: The Pursuit of Saint-Making; and co-author of The Jesuit Mystique and Power and Peril: The Catholic Church at the Crossroads.
He has been a columnist, a radio documentary maker, a television commentator on Vatican affairs, and a regular contributor to Commonweal magazine. He was, as well, the chief advisor for the widely acclaimed TV series, Sir Peter Ustinov's Inside the Vatican. The recipient of many awards and honours, he is currently preparing a radio documentary series on Henri Nouwen and teaching a course on Nouwen at Sacred Heart University.
His next major project will be the biography of Henri J.M. Nouwen, the only biographical account of Nouwen's life and works to be authorized by The Henri Nouwen Legacy Trust.
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The Essential Henri Nouwen, edited by Robert A. Jonas
This recently released brief biography and anthology of Nouwen’s teaching covers all his major themes--God, love, life, death, psychology, woundedness, healing and social action—and is drawn from among his more than forty books.
The Essential Henri Nouwen is the perfect, compact introduction to Henri Nouwen, beloved spiritual writer and Catholic priest whom Christianity Today called “one of the world’s great 20th century spiritual writers.”
Published by Shambhala, 2009. Soft cover, 191 pages.
Robert A. Jonas, Ed.D., is founder and director of the Empty Bell, a contemplative sanctuary in Northampton, Massachusetts. He is a musician and retreat leader, and the author of Henri Nouwen: Selected Writings (Orbis). His website is www.emptybell.org
HOME TONIGHT Audiobook Now Available
Christianaudio, a leading producer of top-quality audio books has published Home Tonight: Further Reflections on the Parable of the Prodigal Son Audio Book just in time for Christmas!
Read by Arthur Morey, a Harvard graduate, playwright, teacher and actor, who has loaned his expressive voice to more than 80 audiobooks, including works by John Updike, John Irving and Brennan Manning Bridges. Audiofile Magazine lists three of Arthur Morey’s recordings as among the best of 2009!
With an introduction by Sue Mosteller, C.S.J., founding trustee of The Henri Nouwen Legacy Trust and a moving epilogue by Henri Nouwen himself, this is an Audiobook you will want to add to your collection.