Longing for some reflective time and space? Hoping for something that fits your schedule? Interested in (re-)discovering the life and words a wise guide?
Join us for one (or two)
of the following three
online retreats.
Scroll down for an overview of Dr. Thurman's life and work
and for registration for the retreats..
A LABOR DAY NOTE: OPTIONS 1 and 2 are now past.
Option 3 below is still ahead of us. Sign up now!
Option 1:
Meditations with Howard Thurman
A morning retreat on Zoom
Friday, August 16, 2024
at 7:30 a.m. Pacific Time / 8:30 Mountain Time /
9:30 Central Time / 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time
(hello, early birds!)
We
will spend two hours listening to selected reflections by Howard
Thurman, pondering them in meditative silence, sharing some of our
responses in conversation, and enjoying some related images and music. (Yes, there will be a little stretch break in the middle.)
Option 2:
Meditations with Howard Thurman
An evening retreat on Zoom
Monday, August 19, 2024
at 5:30 p.m. Pacific Time / 6:30 Mountain Time /
7:30 Central Time / 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time
(hello, East Coast night owls!)
Same content as in Option 1: We
will spend two hours listening to selected reflections by Howard
Thurman, pondering them in meditative silence, sharing some of our
responses in conversation, and enjoying some related images and music.
(Yes, there will be a little stretch break in the middle.)
Option 3:
Nine Days with Howard Thurman
An online retreat on your own time
September 10-18, 2024
Got 20 minutes a day? Visit the retreat blog any time, day or night,
for nine consecutive days
The retreat takes place on a blog accessible only to those who have registered. Signing on to the blog is easy. (And if needed, tech help is available from your friendly retreat leader.) For each of the nine days, you will find on the blog:
one short excerpt from the writings of Howard Thurman
one spiritual exercise
one prayer
Conversations can take place in the comments to each blog post, or you may choose to remain silent and anonymous.
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Howard Thurman
(1899-1981), a philosopher, educator, theologian, and pastor, was an
African American born in the segregated South during the Jim Crow era.
Nourished by the rich traditions of the Black Church and ordained as a
Baptist minister, he was deeply influenced by Quaker thought, especially
the mysticism and nonviolence of Rufus Jones. He was also a pioneer in
interreligious understanding. His writings --books, prayers,
meditations, and sermons-- are rooted in Christianity yet accessible and
pertinent to people whose wisdom path is "spiritual but not religious."
Howard Thurman
exercised a deep influence on some of the Civil Rights Movement's
leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He traveled to India to
meet Gandhi in the 1930s with the first group of African Americans to do
so. Thurman served as the first Black Dean of Marsh Chapel, the
university chapel at Boston University, and founded the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples, a multicultural, multiracial, and interfaith congregation in San Francisco which is still in existence today. Thurman's book Jesus and the Disinherited (1949) predated Black liberation theology by a generation.
See also here.
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There is a sliding scale for the retreat fees,
as you will see below.
If even the "hardship rate" is too high, write me so we can arrange a full or partial scholarship.
If you wish to register at the "benefactor" rate,
your fee will help offset the cost of scholarships
and will enable me to keep offering these retreats
PLEASE REGISTER AND PAY HERE.
Remember there are three options.
Sign up for the one you want!
