Tag: black Christianity

• The Moral Government of the World: On Faith, Reason, and Truth

  I. THE SOUL-FORCE IN HISTORY In his spiritual message to the world, notable because it is one of the rare extant speeches Mohandas K. Gandhi gave in English, the satygrahi remarked that There is an indefinable mysterious power that pervades everything, I feel it though I do not see it. It is this unseen power […]

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  March 15, 2019

  African-American, Ahimsa, American Empire, Gandhi, Gandhi 150th, Howard Thurman, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Nonviolence, peace, philosophy, Satyagraha, Theology, Truth, W.E.B Du Bois, Western Christianity, Year of Gandhi

  Backs Against The Wall, beloved community, black Christianity, black civilization, British Empire, capitalism, civil rights, civilization, empiricism, faith, freedom, God, history of science, Howard Thurman, imperialism, India, intercivilizational unity, James Baldwin, liberation, Love, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., oppression, Pan Asia, peace, philosophy, poverty, race, reason, Satyagraha, social sciences, socialism, Sue Bailey Thurman, systematic theology, talented tenth, the color line, The World and Africa, Theology, War, Western academy, Western civilization, Western science

• The Garland March: From Selma to Montgomery, 1965

  The flash and flutter of a lens can capture a moment in eternity. In the photograph below, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., second from left, and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, second from right, wear garlands in the Hindu tradition. It is 1965 and they are marching from Selma to Montgomery. I am unsure which of […]

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  February 13, 2019

  African-American, Gandhi, Pan-Africanism

  Abraham Joshua Herschel, “Our God is Marching On”, beloved community, black Christianity, black civilization, civil rights, civilization, freedom, Hinduism, intercivilizational unity, Judaism, liberation, Martin Luther King Jr., Pan Africa, Pan Asia, peace, segregation, Selma, Selma march, talented tenth, the color line, The World and Africa, YearofDuBois

• The Thurman Delegation in India, 1935-1936

  

  Sue Bailey Thurman and Howard Thurman travelled to India, Burma and Ceylon, as part of the first African-American delegation to colonial India in 1935-1936, at the height of its anti-colonial struggle against the British Empire. Known as the Pilgrimage of Friendship to the East, the delegation was organized by the Student Christian Movement in the […]

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  February 11, 2019

  African-American, Gandhi, Howard Thurman, India, Uncategorized

  Art, black Christianity, black civilization, Christianity, civilization, freedom, Gandhi, Hinduism, Howard Thurman, intercivilizational unity, khadi, labor, liberation, Martin Luther King Jr., music, negro spiritual, Pan Afro-Asiatic Civilizational Complex, Pan Asia, PanAfricanism, Paul Robeson, race, slavery, socialism, Sue Bailey Thurman, talented tenth, the color line, The World and Africa, Theology, vanguard, W.E.B Du Bois, YearofDuBois