While we are sheltering in place, treat yourself by watching this PBS special readily available on the internet. Howard Thurman was born at the beginning of the twentieth century and became the spiritual mentor to the modern Civil Rights movement. Thurman became a contemplative and found God in nature and in meditation and silence as well as traditional sources of faith. He challenged the racial and religious divides in the United States and was one of the first African Americans to go to India, meet with Mahatma Ghandhi and adopt nonviolence as a strategy for social justice. Dr. Thurman authored several books including his most famous, Jesus and the Disinherited, and cofounded the largest multiracial, interfaith church at the time in the country. He spiritually mentored Dr. Martin L. King, Jr and other leaders of the modern civil rights movement and inspired them with his gentle reminder that “All social issues are temporary and brief, so go deep.”
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