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- Tags: experience
Growing Apprehension in Life (1963-09-13); Human Life in Perspective (1964-05-22)
Tags: blind puppy, childhood, cities, clouds, darkness, desert, destruction, Earth, experience, George Washington, God, inward journey, Jane Steger, learning, leaves from a secret journal, light, meaning, New York, opener of the way, Pawling, permanence, potentiality, relationship, rhythm, scent, smell, twilight, universe, vision, womb
The Country of the Heart (1963-09-20); Death - A Part of Life (1961-05-12)
In this recording within the We Believe series; Howard Thurman draws upon a parable of two leaves at the end of the Fall season. The two leaves are in conversation with one…
Tags: A Song of Living, angels, biology, chaos, coding, common experience, completion, confidence, constitution, creativity, ecology, epistemology, experience, Jane Steger, journey, leaves, leaves from a secret journal, life, North Carolina, Oak Tree, parable, peace, personality, pigs, Sargasso Sea, seasons, snakes, transcendence, tree, urge of life, Virginia, working paper
Jesus, His Contribution (1963-03-01); The Triumphant Entry (1964-03-20)
In this recording within the We Believe Series; Howard Thurman reflects upon his writing within "The Inward Journey." In this reflection, he gives a…
Tags: christology, donkey, experience, fact, family, flowers, heart, historical Jesus, holiday, hope, ideal, inward journey, Jesus of Nazareth, kingdom, lent, longing, love, ministry, palms, prayer, process, prophet, quest, reflections, sanctification, spirit, story, synthesis, Triumphant Entry
"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
The Child and Religious Meaning (1964-01-24); Our Children Are Not Our Things (1963-11-01)
In this recording within the We Believe Series; Howard Thurman utilizes Frederick J. Moffitt's "Thus A Child Learns," as a point of departure for his liturgy for the devotion of a child. Thurman notes that it is the "birthright" of every child to be given the tools "define for them what it is that they are seeking and where they may find it."
In this recording within the We Believe Series; Howard Thurman reflects from his text, "Meditations of the Heart," to "think about children and our…
Tags: behavior, belonging, children, community, creativity, curiosity, dedication, dependability, development, developmental psychology, divan, experience, faith, family, Frederick J. Moffitt, furniture, genuine, goodness, habits, home, imagination, influence, intention, learning, life, love, meditations of the heart, moonlight, prayer, relationship, responsibility, self-control, teaching, Thus a Child Learns, tone, tradition, vitality
Albert Schweitzer (9), 1962 Jan 14
Tags: Africa, Albert Schweitzer, Anglican Church, avalanche, Bishop Colenso, bushbacks, Christianity, cognitive dissonance, contextuality, creativity, current events, ecology, experience, incarceration, Jesus, kenosis, life, meditation, monkeys, murder, Olive Schreiner, On the Edge of the Primeval Forrest, ox, Pakistan, reverence, smallpox, the great decision, tobacco, vitality, William Blake, Zulu
St. Augustine, part 1 (7); St. Augustine, part 2 (8), 1961 Dec 3, 10, Side B
Tags: Anthony, Augustine, burn, church, City of God, Confessions, conversion, creation narrative, creativity, discipline, empire, evil, experience, fall of humanity, free will, grace, Incarnation, intention, mind, original sin, Pelagius, realization, rebirth, redemption, religious experience, reorder, salvation, Tolle Legge, tremble
Jesus and the Disinherited, Part 1, January 11, 1959
Conversations with Howard Thurman, September 1980, Parts 9 and 10, Side B
Tags: Atlanta, burden of obligation, church, debt, developmental psychology, dichotomy, doors, ego, experience, German reader, gratitude, ground of being, idiom of life, imagination, Incarnation, India, Jesus, Kropotkin, Lord's Prayer, Nancy Ambrose, Old Lady Wright, personality, pilgrimage, plurality of truth, prayer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, relationship, responsibility, seminary, singing, spiritual journey, tent of clues
Conversations with Howard Thurman, September 1980, Parts 1 and 2, Side A
Tags: aliveness, Anglican Church, being seen, Browne Barr, calling, choice, commitment, community, creative encounter, creativity, ecology, experience, Fellowship Church, Howard University, identity, imago dei, inner self, integrity of life, Isolation, Kansas, knowing, League of Women Voters, love, Love Boat, Minneapolis, New Mexico, Oak Tree, Olive Schreiner, oneness, order, passkey, religious experience, room with no doors, San Francisco Seminary, scent on one's trail, self-actualization, South Africa, South Dakota, Sue Bailey Thurman, teaching, vitality, Yale Divinity School