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Thurman starts this recording by talking about the desire to be remembered and recognized in the world. If one is anonymous in their life, then they are living without life, and death isn’t even fully dying. Then he proceeds to answer questions from people in an audience. This prompts Thurman to tell the story of how the group he brought to San Francisco and the Fellowship Church formed. With this, he also explains the racial breakdown of the United States while this was happening. Thurman tells…

This sermon is the eighth of nine in a series of sermons given in Marsh Chapel that are titled "The Inward Journey." In this sermon, Thurman explores St. Augustine's texts "Confessions," and "City of God." He uses each of these texts to navigate St. Augustine's theological posturing towards salvation, original sin, free will, and conversion. The climax of this sermon critiques Augustine's claim that the church is the place to which humanity finds salvation, which is held in juxtaposition to…

This recording is a part of a wider series of conversations from September to October of 1980 where Howard Thurman met with a variety of young men and women who were discerning their calling to ministry. Thurman poses the intent of this group as an opportunity to "open up for one's self the moving, vital, creative push of God, while God is still disguised in the movement of God's self." In this recording, Thurman explores what it means to participate on a spiritual journey in a pluralistic…