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Summer Snapshot: The Secret of Solitude

July 26, 2016 by Galina Pylypiv 1 Comment

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 quickly time escapes from me.

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Filed Under: Life in the Academy, Transitions, Vocational Snapshot Tagged With: calling, rest, sabbath, solitude, spiritual disciplines, Summer Snapshot, tips for grad school, transition, urbana, worship

Henri Nouwen: A Creative Response (from Loneliness to Solitude)

March 6, 2012 by Micheal Hickerson No Comments

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 […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: henri nouwen, loneliness, Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life, solitude, thomas merton

Henri Nouwen: From Loneliness to Solitude

February 14, 2012 by Micheal Hickerson 2 Comments

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, […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: books, henri nouwen, jean vanier, loneliness, reaching out, Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life, solitude

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