Henri Nouwen, the world-renowned spiritual guide and counsellor, understood the spiritual life as a journey of faith and transformation that is deepened by accountability, community, and relationships. Though he counselled many people during his lifetime, his principles of spiritual direction and formation were never written down. Two of Nouwen’s long-time students, Michael Christensen and Rebecca Laird, have taken his famous course in spiritual direction and supplemented it with his unpublished writings. Spiritual Formation showcases Nouwen’s life-long effort to reconstruct the five classical stages of spiritual development as movements in the journey of faith.