Sight-Seeing: We need more Howard Thurman in our politics
The theologian and often-overlooked civil rights hero would have warned us against politics as a zero-sum game writes academic and author DAVID B GOWLER, in an article first published on Religion News Service…
Hartford International University expands Black ministries with Howard Thurman Center
RNS Hartford International University for Religion and Peace has launched its new Howard Thurman Center for Justice and Transformational Ministry, an expansion of its longtime Black Ministries Program, named for the 20th-century theologian and mystic. Joel N Lohr, president of the university that previously was known as Hartford Seminary, said the centre fits into the […]
Howard Thurman, mentor to King who preached non-violence, featured in documentary
RNS A little-known theologian who mentored Rev Martin Luther King, Jr, is the subject of a new documentary that highlights the influence the older man had on a range of civil rights leaders. Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story, a 55-minute film, highlights how King’s work and mission were shaped by the African-American […]
ESSAY: HOW HOWARD THURMAN CAN HELP CHRISTIANS HEAL THEIR POLITICAL DIVIDES
US author and president of The Witness: A Black Christian Collective, JEMAR TISBY, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks at how lessons from the writings of black minister and theologian Howard Thurman could help broach partisan divides among Christians in the US…
ESSAY: BATTLE LINES FORM OVER SOCIAL JUSTICE – IS IT GOSPEL OR HERESY?
In an article first published by Religion News Service, JEMAR TISBY, president of the black Christian collective The Witness, takes issue with The Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel, recently published by a group of US Christians…
ESSAY: MEET THE THEOLOGIAN WHO HELPED MLK SEE THE VALUE OF NON-VIOLENCE
As the US marks Martin Luther King Jr Day, PAUL HARVEY, professor of American History at the University of Colorado, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at the relationship between Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, and theologian and mystic Howard Thurman…