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Howard Thurman is strong on the Via Creativa. His powerful book, Deep River and The Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death, unveils the empowerment
Thurman was committed to the truth that all persons are mystics. Anyone can be broken through at any time by an encounter with the Divine.
Experiencing Howard Thurman is for me like coming home. The Four Paths of Creation Spirituality, so deep a part of Eckhart’s naming of the spiritual
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
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