For everyone who asks receives the one who seeks finds and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. Let him lead you this week through these selected readings.Īsk and it will be given to you seek and you will find knock and the door will be opened to you. Instead of separating social issues from spirituality as he was often advised to do, he points to a personal God in Jesus who invites us to love and be loved, to be intimately known and valued in all of our questions and struggle. He faced the injustices of racism with a prophetic call to non-violent resistance and enemy-love, frequently asking the question, “How can I believe that life has meaning if I do not believe that my own life has meaning?” His life-affirming faith calls readers to a universal Source in Christ who shares all the particulars of our own humanity, especially those whose “backs are up against the wall” as he describes in Jesus and the Disinherited. He emphasized the vitality of community, and the personal worth of every human being based on direct encounter with God. Howard Thurman (1899-1981) was an African-American pastor, preacher, scholar, educator, social activist, mystic, and church planter who authored over 20 books on the spiritual life.
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