Tender to the World: Jean Vanier, L'Arche, and the United Church of Canada by Carolyn Whitney-Brown
English | October 16th, 2019 | ISBN: 0773559116, 0773559124 | 288 pages | EPUB | 1.77 MB
"What is the secret that allows L'Arche to exist? I'll tell you: pleasure!" explains Jean Vanier, founder of the international federation of L'Arche communities where people with and without intellectual disabilities share their lives. Vanier's spiritual vision and playful sense of humour shaped L'Arche, but the organization was also informed by its surprising history with the United Church of Canada. In Tender to the World Carolyn Whitney-Brown explores the connections between the two organizations through diverse critical insights from Julia Kristeva, Doreen Massey, and Mikhail Bakhtin, as well as Vanier's controversial articulation of the gift of weakness.
