DAYTONA BEACH — An event will be held Nov. 18 to celebrate Daytona Beach-born theologian, civil rights leader and author Howard Thurman. There will be tours of Thurman's 128-year-old boyhood home that ...

Howard Thurman was a man of firsts. He was the first Black man to serve as dean of a chapel at a mostly white university. He helped establish the first major interracial church in the United States.

What if the key question for Catholics to ask this Martin Luther King Jr. Day isn't whether Black Lives Matter is a pseudo-religion, but whether Catholicism itself in its response to racism in the ...

Howard Thurman’s "Meditations of the Heart" offers a sacred refuge—a liberatory theology of dignity, stillness, and inward freedom that people can return to as a sanctuary.

Part IV. Civil Rights to Black Liberation and Womanist Theology: God of the Oppressed, God of the Surviving. By the mid-twentieth century, Black theology in the Americas had walke ...

Thurman mentored Martin Luther King Jr. Howard Thurman, a Daytona Beach, Florida-born theologian, civil rights leader, and author will be celebrated by his hometown on Nov. 18 with an event featuring ...

When faith meets activism, what legacies endure? The Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground hosted on Sept. 24 the first installment of “The Howard and Sue Bailey Thurman Series,” a continuing series ...

One word hangs, framed, over the desk of new Howard University Divinity School Dean Alton B. Pollard III: "Whosoever." The word is obscured slightly by a swirl of rainbow colors, which is just how ...

Thurman helped shape the civil rights movement of the South after he talked to Mahatma Gandhi about nonviolence. Howard Thurman was a man of firsts. He was the first Black man to serve as dean of a ...