Galina Pylypiv connected with the Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) at Urbana15, where she served as part of the liveblogging team. See some of her previous work here, and browse other Summer Snapshots here. Same setting yet different pace of life. A transition from being an undergraduate student to graduate student at the same university is a place of mixed feelings. As I'm utilizing my summer by starting a research project, the reality of large time commitment is becoming very tangible for me as I realize how … [Read more...] about Summer Snapshot: The Secret of Solitude
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Henri Nouwen: A Creative Response (from Loneliness to Solitude)
I'm concluding my series on Henri Nouwen's book Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life with the final chapter from his first section, which deals with the movement from loneliness to solitude. For several days before I began reading this chapter, I had not responded well to events at home, such as my children acting like children, for goodness' sake. Nouwen's words at the beginning of this chapter (entitled "A Creative Response") caught me up short: As long as we are trying to run away from loneliness … [Read more...] about Henri Nouwen: A Creative Response (from Loneliness to Solitude)
Henri Nouwen: From Loneliness to Solitude
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