Browse Items (118 total)
- Time Period is exactly "1950s"
Sing Your Own Song (1964-03-06); The Right Thing This Day (1958-05-23)
The Blind Man (1958-10-03); Heaven, Heaven (1958-11-21)
Balm in Gilead, Part 1 (1958-10-10); Balm in Gilead, Part 2 (1958-10-17)
Boundaries of the Self (1961-11-24); Confidence in God (1958-06-13)
If I Ascend Up to Heaven (1961-01-06); The Patience of Unanswered Prayer (1958-04-11)
In "If I Ascend Up to Heaven," Thurman explores the idea that God is present in the joys of life and the darkest of times. He also dwells on the idea that we often feel isolated from others, but that no one is isolated from God.
In "The Patience of Unanswered Prayer," Thurman explores the value of learning the patience of unanswered prayer. He suggests that this patience can lead away from a focus on the hunger for something that has not come to pass. Instead,…
The Idiom of Brotherhood (1963-11-15); The Big Dream, the Little Act (1959-05-29)
The Meaning of Love (1958-03-07); A Sense of What is Vital (1959-01-30)
Tags: 1 Corinthians, A sense of what is vital, affection, community, confidence, Dillinger, discernment, dog, experience, interconnectivity, love, meaning, Moffatt, mortician, mortuary, Olive Schreiner, ownership, Paul, requitment, San Francisco, satisfaction, security, symbolism, trust, understanding, vitality, wisdom
Supportive Order Inherent in Life (1963-05-17); For Love's Sake (1958-05-30)
In this recording within the We Believe Series; Howard Thurman reflects upon a poem from Eugene V. Debs, speaking…
Tags: belonging, contagion, creation, creativity, ecology, Eugene V. Debs, experience, fellowship, harmony, healing, heart, interconnectivity, inward journey, love, order, organism, Paul, Philippians, poetry, relationship, security, society, synchronization, synthesis, tentacles of time, unity, vulnerability, wholeness, will
Thanksgiving and the Nature of Life (1963-11-22); Waiting Creatively (1959-06-12)
In this recording within…
"The Crucifixion" (1959-03-27); Good Friday (1964-03-27)
In this recording within the We Believe Series; Howard Thurman uses Oscar Wilde's "De Profundis" to make sense of Good Friday. He again dwells upon the historical Jesus, the implications…
Tags: agony, crucifixion, De Profundis, death, experience, God, Good Friday, Hand of God, historical Jesus, holiday, Holy Week, human spirit, interpretation, Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth, Jordan Valley, legion, logic, oppression, Oscar Wilde, Oswald W.S. McCall, participation, Passover, personality, reverence, sovereignty, suffering, theodicy, transcendence