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Products>Flying, Falling, Catching: An Unlikely Story of Finding Freedom

Flying, Falling, Catching: An Unlikely Story of Finding Freedom

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, 2022
ISBN: 9780281086955
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’I am very grateful for Carolyn Whitney-Brown’s accurate account of my brother Henri’s inner feelings, hopes, wishes and despair. You brought Henri very close to me again.’
LAURENT NOUWEN, FOUNDER OF THE HENRI NOUWEN FOUNDATION

’Anyone who knew Henri, either through his writing or in person, will immediately recognise how beautifully he’s been brought to life in this book.’
GARY DONOHOE, PROFESSOR & CHAIR OF PSYCHOLOGY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND

‘A beacon of hope.’
MARINA NEMAT, AUTHOR OF INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER PRISONER OF TEHRAN

During the last five years of his life, spiritual leader and teacher Henri Nouwen became close to a travelling circus trapeze troupe, The Flying Rodleighs. The lessons he discovered through his relationship with the troupe stimulated Nouwen to write in a genre new to him, creative non-fiction, and these writings are presented for the first time in Flying, Falling, Catching.

With care and insight, Nouwen’s colleague and friend Carolyn Whitney-Brown weaves Henri’s material into a dramatic narrative that imagines his life flashing before him during his first heart attack. We learn how Nouwen saw his own experiences reflected in the artistry, exhilarating successes, crushing failures and continual forgiveness that were integral to the act of The Flying Rodleighs.

A fascinating blend of autobiography and spiritual writing, Flying, Falling Catching offers an extraordinary new angle on a man who has inspired thousands. Through his own writings and Whitney-Brown’s narrative, we see him as a spiritual adventurer, someone who was transformed by diversity as he learned to view the world through many perspectives.

Nouwen’s story – including his participation in the Civil Rights movement, the friendships he made during the 1990s AIDS pandemic, and many other unexpected encounters – encourages us to embrace our vulnerabilities, and vividly reminds us that one of the greatest challenges we face is to avoid despair by reflecting on the meaning and significance of the lives we have lived, and are living.

Part inspirational Christian autobiography, part thought-provoking narrative, Flying, Falling Catching will surprise and delight long-term fans of Nouwen’s ministry and new readers keen to learn more about him. In offering a deeper understanding of an extraordinary yet very human spirit, it provides us with the motivation to search out our own spiritual adventure; like Nouwen, we too can learn to let go and fly – and not be afraid to fall.

Nouwen describes the late-life lessons he discovered through his inspiring relationship with a trapeze troupe in this never before published narrative memoir, which will surprise and delight long-term and new fans alike.

’Henri is a superb Christian teacher who will surely stand the test of time.’ Fr Richard Rohr

’Timeless wisdom for life from one of the great spiritual masters of our age.’ James Martin SJ on ‘Following Jesus’ (SPCK, 2019)

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