Flying, falling, catching : an unlikely story of finding freedom / Henri J. M. Nouwen and Carolyn Whitney-Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nouwen, Henri J. M., author.

Whitney-Brown, Carolyn, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nouwen, Henri J. M.

Nouwen, Henri J. M--Friends and associates.

Catholic Church--Clergy--Biography.

Catholic Church.

Priests--Canada--Biography.

Priests.

Aerialists--Canada.

Aerialists.

Clergy.

Friendship.

Canada.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

262 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022]

Summary:

During the last five years of his life, best-selling spiritual author Henri J. M. Nouwen became close to The Flying Rodleighs, a trapeze troupe in a traveling circus. Like Nouwen's own life, a trapeze act is full of artistry, exhilarating successes, crushing failures and continual forgiveness. He wrote about his experience in a genre new to him: creative non-fiction. In Flying, Falling, Catching, Nouwen's colleague and friend Carolyn Whitney-Brown presents his unpublished trapeze writings framed by the true story of his rescue through a hotel window by paramedics during his first heart attack. Readers will meet Nouwen as a spiritual risk taker who was transformed through his engagement with these trapeze artists, as well as his participation in the Civil Rights movement, his life in community with people with intellectual disabilities, his personal growth through friendships during the 1990s AIDS pandemic, and other unexpected encounters. What will we do with our lives, and with whom will we do it? In this story of flying and catching, Nouwen invites us all to let go and fly, even when we are afraid of falling.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. The Call

II. Falling

III. Teamwork

IV. Trust the Catcher

V. Flying.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-259).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780063113527

006311352X

OCLC:

1298599353