Dear Engaged Spirituality Family, (Important Note: The recordings on Boston University Howard Thurman Listening Room Website are not...

Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation and our...

The higher you build your barriers, the taller I become, The further you take my rights away, the faster I will run, You can deny me, you...

Our opening music from James Weldon Johnson was written in 1900. About the circumstances of the song, Johnson wrote: A group of young men...

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wildflower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. – ...

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and...

Dear Engaged Spirituality Family, Both Jesus of Nazareth and Howard Thurman understood fear. As oppressed people during Roman occupation...

This song came out in 1975, the year before I graduated from high school. At the time, I clung to its message. I had a lot of hope that...

Guard your water. Love your water, because it’s in your body… I know the water can hear me. The water in my body can talk to the water...

It is for us to see the Kingdom of God as always coming, always pressing in on the present, always big with possibility, and always...

Strength of Land and Water We belong to the ground It is our power And we must stay close to it Or maybe we will get lost. - ...

Dear Engaged Spirituality Family, Where in the common experience of the people may there be found a clue which will give to them (the...

What a wonderful day today is! I rejoice in its sunny and gentle invitation to come alive again and experience the splendor and...

We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond...

When Barykh came to those Words in the psalm which read: ‘I will not give sleep to mine eyes, nor slumber to mine eyelids until I find a...

“And, they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying Hosanna; Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord.” Mark 11:9...

Dear Engaged Spirituality Family, What is the criteria for belonging to God’s family according to Jesus of Nazareth, according to Paul...

What is it that calls someone to serve, to make that commitment beyond oneself that can transform the lives of those around one and bring...

See the Flowers By Rainer Maria Rilke See the flowers, so faithful to Earth. We know their fate because we share it. Were they to grieve...

There is a sense of reverence that visits and lingers with me when I read about Howard Thurman and his cosmic connections as a child. I...