![]() ![]() ![]() Surely a thinker who influenced such influential people at such an influential moment of history is worthy of our attention! There is perhaps no greater indication of his importance than the fact that when the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement were gathering in places like Montgomery and Selma, they brought Thurman’s writings on nonviolence with them. While his theological legacy has been somewhat muted in the decades after his death, during his life he was a major force in the American, and indeed, global Church. Today, I’d like to begin with Howard Thurman (1899-1981). And so, in honour of Black History Month, I’d like to share three more of them with you between now and Ash Wednesday. Over the past few months, I’ve had the blessing of being exposed to more Black theological voices. I don’t mean this in a self-congratulatory way but I genuinely loved getting out of the way to give space for these largely under-appreciated, brilliant theological voices to shine out - with the side benefit of making our theology a little bit less WEIRD. ![]() One of my favorite projects last year was the week in which I posted daily posts celebrating, in my small way from my small platform, the voices of African American theologians. ![]()
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