At home with God
Here, Anders Gullberg, a core member who has been living in Angel House for one year, reflects on this passage on home and prayer by Henri Nouwen. L'Arche celebrates that one of Anders' gifts is his ability to create home.
Read moreYou’re fine
In L’Arche, we seek to name each person’s most true identity every day. YOU’RE FINE.
Read morePrayer through song
In our L’Arche homes here in Chicago, as well as L’Arche homes all over the world, we often pray together through music.
Read moreThe fullness of time
The first book I read by Henri Nouwen was one that I found after encountering his books at a Korean bookstore where his were the only few English titles on the shelves.
Read moreA reflection on blessings by Elbert Lott
"A blessing goes beyond the distinction between admiration or condemnation, between virtues or vices, between good deeds or evil deeds. A blessing touches the original goodness of the other and calls forth his or her Belovedness."
Read more“Peace” By: Elisha Preston
"Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking." Henri Nouwen
Read moreJourneying together through Lent
Today marks the beginning of the Christian season of Lent.
Read moreSolidarity: We Belong to the Light
In 2014, L’Arche celebrated 50 years of existing in the world and communities in the US celebrated with a jubilee party in Washington, DC.
Read moreSolidarity: Sharing Life
Solidarity. “Unity or agreement of feeling or action, especially among individuals with a common interest. Mutual support within a group.” It’s one of those words that gets tossed around as a big picture idea that seems all but unachievable, especially in the divided world we live in today. But, when you break it down, it’s pretty simple.
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