What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman (audio)
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Overview
In What Makes You Come Alive, Dr. Lerita Coleman Brown walks with us through Howard Thurman’s inimitable life; we learn from Thurman’s resilience in the psychologically terrorizing climate of the Jim Crow South, his encounters with Quakers and with Mahatma Gandhi, and his sense of being guided by the Spirit. Each chapter illuminates an aspect of Thurman’s work and includes reflection questions and spiritual practices. Known as the godfather of the civil rights movement, Howard Thurman served as a spiritual adviser to Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders and activists in the 1960s. Thurman championed silence, contemplation, common unity, and nonviolence as powerful dimensions of social change. But Dr. Lerita Coleman Brown didn’t learn about him during her years of spiritual-direction training. Only when a friend heard of her longing to encounter the work of Black contemplatives did she finally learn about Thurman, his mystical spirituality, and his liberating ethic. In What Makes You Come Alive, Brown beckons listeners into their own apprenticeship with Thurman. Brown walks with us through Thurman’s inimitable life and commitments as he summons us into centering down, encountering the natural world, paying attention to sacred synchronicity, unleashing inner authority, and recognizing the genius of the religion of Jesus. We learn from Thurman’s resilience in the psychologically terrorizing climate of the Jim Crow South, his encounters with Quakers and with Mahatma Gandhi, and his sense of being guided by the Spirit. Each chapter illuminates an aspect of Thurman’s work and includes reflection questions and spiritual practices.
- Title: What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman (audio)
- Author: Lerita Coleman Brown
- Publisher: christianaudio.com
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Audio
- Subjects: Biography & Autobiography › Religious; Biography & Autobiography › Social Activists; civil rights; Howard University; Martin Luther King Jr
- ISBNs: 9781545923368, 1545923361
- Resource ID: LLS:9781545923368
- Resource Type: Media
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-06-06T17:49:35Z