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- 1981 - 1988 (Creation)
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File consists of business correspondence with requests for articles, endorsements, book reviews, reports of and invitations to Sojourners' annual retreats at Kirkridge Retreat Center and other conferences such as the Peace Pentecost 1985, requests for financial assistance, and icon artwork. Includes a typescript of Part Two of Nouwen's Spiritual Reflections with annotations, a book review of Kindred Spirits by Maurice Monette. File also includes A Spirituality for our Times, Report of a consultation, Annecy, France, 3-8 December 1984, published by the World Council of Churches. Most of the correspondence is from Jim Wallis, the editor of the magazine. There are also a few articles written by Wallis including his opinions on nuclear weapons. There is an itinerary for Nouwen's trip to Malaysia, Mexico, and USA in August 1976 and a copy of the October 1981 issue of Sojourners.
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Material for the period 1988-1996 is located at file number 837b.
See 1.11. Henri Nouwen fonds - Sound recordings, SR61 v.1-3 for audio cassette recordings of Nouwen's talks at the Sojourners Retreat "Peace Pentecost" from May 25-28, 1985.
See 1.13. Henri Nouwen fonds - Administrative resources files - Peace Pentecost, box 351, file 14235, for handwritten notes by Nouwen for a sermon he gave at the Peace Pentecost 1985 Sojourners Retreat on May 26, 1985.
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Added by L Joson, 6 September 2018