Using the format of a spiritual direction group, we will reflect on wisdom from African-American theologian, pastor, activist, and mystic Howard Thurman. The Center for Christian Spirituality will be offering a unique opportunity for people desiring this type of integration. Is working towards what John Wesley called “justice, mercy and truth” a growing edge for you?ĭo you yearn for a society based on racial equity, but you don’t know what you could do as an individual? The moment we find ourselves in requires attending to both the work in the community (crossing lines that divide us, attending to issues like homelessness, food insecurity and education) and it requires a depth of inner spiritual connection and awakening. For real transformation to happen these must be held together. Community: Sanctuary, The Center for Christian Spirituality The Growing Edge “Look well to the growing edge!” (Howard Thurman) Look well to the growing edge.Details Group Contact: Michael Sciretti Jr. This is the basis of hope in moments of despair, the incentive to carry on when times are out of joint and men and women have lost their reason, the source of confidence when worlds crash and dreams whiten into ash. It is the extra breath from the exhausted lung, the one more thing to try when all else has failed, the upward reach of life when weariness closes in upon all endeavor. The fruit ripens on the tree, the roots are silently at work in the darkness of the earth against a time when there shall be new leaves, fresh blossoms, green fruit. All around us worlds are dying and new worlds are being born all around us life is dying and life is being born. I will be reading his Meditations of the Heart over our break next week, and offer this excerpt and some of his encouraging words … “Look well to the growing edge. In 1944, he co-founded, along with Alfred Fisk, the first major interracial, interdenominational church in the United States. Thurman’s theology of radical nonviolence influenced and shaped a generation of civil rights activists, and he was a key mentor to leaders within the movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr. One that I look to pretty consistently is Howard Thurman, philosopher, theologian, educator, and civil rights leader. In these uncertain and challenging times, I take heart and inspiration from mentors near and far, living and passed.
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