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Thurman was a serious deep ecumenist: It is my belief that in the Presence of God there is neither male nor female, white nor black,
Hildegard, like Thurman, calls out about our “pillaging of nature.” She thunders: Now in the people who were meant to green there is no more
Yesterday we saw how Thurman underscores our inherent need for cosmology — the “curiosity of our race” includes curiosity about our origins, our beginnings, where
For Howard Thurman our feeling that we are part of our “total environment” is part and parcel of holiness. He was ahead of many theologians
We are meditating on the likenesses between Howard Thurman’s theology and that of Hildegard of Bingen. Yesterday we focused on their common teachings about the
One might ask what unites a twelfth century Benedictine abbess and a twentieth century African American prophet and philosopher? It is the sacredness of creation
Community lies at the heart of Thurman’s mysticism. He says: The profoundest disclosure in the religious experience is the awareness that the individual is not
This past week, while meditating about the epiphany of evil that revealed itself on January 6, I experienced a welcome counterpoint in the fine PBS
The radicalization of the Republican party is happening in front of our eyes and is deeply dividing that party. The effort to subvert the right
I think the past year will be remembered as the year America lost its innocence–or presumed innocence, or feigned innocence, or wished-for innocence. The
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