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Anchored in the current : discovering Howard Thurman as educator, activist, guide, and prophet / edited by Gregory C. Ellison, II.

Contributor(s): Ellison, Gregory C., II [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Louisville, Kentucky : Westminster John Knox Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First editionDescription: xiii, 207 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780664260668; 0664260667Subject(s): Thurman, Howard, 1900-1981DDC classification: 280/.4092 LOC classification: BX6495.T53 | A63 2020
Contents:
A letter to my daughter on the one hundred fifty-seventh anniversary of the Emancipation / Gregory C. Ellison, II -- Introduction / Gregory C. Ellison, II -- Our life and times / Mari Evans -- Longing for reunion with a man I never met / Barbara Brown Taylor -- Listening for the voice of vocation : hearing the sound of the genuine in solitude and community -- The gift of good counsel : listening for "the sound of the genuine" / Martin Doblmeier -- The inward sea : mapping interior landmarks for leaders / Walter Earl Fluker -- Thurman-eutics : Howard Thurman's "Clothesline" for the interpretation of the life of the mind and journey of the spirit / Shively J. Smith -- Emergence within / Stephen Lewis -- Prophetic service and global change / Marian Wright Edelman -- Where freedom forms : place, purpose, and "the particulars" / Starsky D. Wilson -- Mysticism and social action : the ethical demands of oneness / Liza J. Rankow -- Echoes of Head and heart : an ancestral journey within / Matthew Wesley Williams -- "The Growing Edge" of life and ministry / Luke A. Powery -- In search of Thurman's apostles / Patrick D. Clayborn -- When the magic happens I struggle to catch my breath : planting seeds of community on common ground / Tyler Ho-Yin Sit -- Embracing the quest / Luther E. Smith, Jr. -- A perpetual state of relative completion / Elesa Commerse.

Acknowledgments : A letter to my daughter on the one hundred fifty-seventh anniversary of the Emancipation / Gregory C. Ellison, II -- Introduction / Gregory C. Ellison, II -- pt. 1. Thurman as vocational anchor. Interlude : Our life and times / Mari Evans -- Longing for reunion with a man I never met / Barbara Brown Taylor -- Listening for the voice of vocation : hearing the sound of the genuine in solitude and community -- pt. 2. Thurman as anchor for educators. Interlude : The gift of good counsel : listening for "the sound of the genuine" / Martin Doblmeier -- The inward sea : mapping interior landmarks for leaders / Walter Earl Fluker -- Thurman-eutics : Howard Thurman's "Clothesline" for the interpretation of the life of the mind and journey of the spirit / Shively J. Smith -- pt. 3. Thurman as anchor for activists. Interlude : Emergence within / Stephen Lewis -- Prophetic service and global change / Marian Wright Edelman -- Where freedom forms : place, purpose, and "the particulars" / Starsky D. Wilson -- Mysticism and social action : the ethical demands of oneness / Liza J. Rankow -- pt. 4. Thurman as spiritual anchor. Interlude : Echoes of Head and heart : an ancestral journey within / Matthew Wesley Williams -- "The Growing Edge" of life and ministry / Luke A. Powery -- In search of Thurman's apostles / Patrick D. Clayborn -- When the magic happens I struggle to catch my breath : planting seeds of community on common ground / Tyler Ho-Yin Sit -- Conclusion : Embracing the quest / Luther E. Smith, Jr. -- Postlude : A perpetual state of relative completion / Elesa Commerse.

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