Henri Nouwen is one of those authors whom I have heard praised for many years, but have never gotten around to reading. His biography —an accomplished intellectual and Catholic priest who left the academy in order to live in a L'Arche community with developmentally disabled adults (influenced by his friend and fellow Catholic intellectual, Jean Vanier) —has long struck me as compelling, but until this year, the only thing I had read by him was a short booklet called "A Spirituality of Fundraising," which InterVarsity … [Read more...] about Henri Nouwen: From Loneliness to Solitude