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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,
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
African-American mystic and theologian Howard Thurman speaks often and eloquently of the primacy of community. The loneliness of the seeker for a community is sometimes
We are meditating on the “C” called community and currently Howard Thurman is our guide. He applies his teaching of “kinship with all life” and
Howard Thurman, who was in many ways the spiritual force behind the civil rights non-violent revolution, has much to say about Community. Like the medieval
We have been considering the return to the sacred and creation among many traditions of the world. Currently we are calling on the African tradition
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