Jean Vanier Daily Thoughts

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Besides being the founder of L'Arche, Jean Vanier is a 21st century writer and social visionary and recipient of many humanitarian awards including the Companion of the Order of Canada. MacLean's Magazine calls him "a Canadian who inspires the world." In a number of best-selling books, Jean Vanier reflects profoundly on what it is to be fully human in our world today.

These short inspirational passages delivered to your email box each day will take less than a minute to read and will help give balance, perspective and spiritual depth to your day. They will be drawn largely from Vanier's best selling books. These include Becoming Human, Finding Peace, Community and Growth and Made for Happiness.

 


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"Jean Vanier is an unusual theologian according to John Swinton, Chair in Divinity and Religious Studies and Professor in Practical Theology and Pastoral Care at the University of Aberdeen. As one reads through his life and work one rarely finds extensive referencing or boasts of great intellectual knowledge of academic philosophy, current debates on the epistemology and ontology of God, or in-depth discussion about the church fathers. Instead one discovers a gentle presence that speaks in stories, and aphorisms which offer nuggets of wisdom about the beauty of disabled lives, the meaning of human relationships-in-community and the love of a God who values vulnerability and weakness." Discover Jean Vanier, the theologian.