Henri's Bookshelf Podcast

In Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life, Henri Nouwen invites us to learn to listen deeply to the voice of the Spirit. In this episode, we speak with Sam Cooper, a pastor who has accompanied a local community of faith for over 30 years. Through stories of listening and obeying, Sam and Wendy celebrate a long journey of discernment leading a community to participate with God in making things right.

The last manuscript of Henri J.M. Nouwen, left unfinished at his sudden death in 1996, recounts his transformative friendship with a traveling trapeze troupe, the Flying Rodleighs. Nouwen thought his trapeze story could become his most important book. Author Carolyn Whitney-Brown, Henri's colleague and friend, was invited to take the unpublished material...

Henri Nouwen gave a series of lectures on the importance of following Jesus in an age of anxiety which became the basis for this book.