Starting Friday, PBS stations will air “ Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story.” The 55-minute film explores how Thurman went from a lonely African-American boy who talked to an oak tree for companionship to a man who still speaks to spiritual seekers nearly 40 years after his death. Now a broader audience is being offered their own chance to meet Thurman. Smith, Jr., author of “Howard Thurman: The Mystic as Prophet,” once described him. “Howard Thurman was a spiritual genius who transformed persons who transformed history,” is how Luther E. And he still inspires leaders as diverse as civil rights icon John Lewis, the Democratic congressman from Atlanta, and Barbara Brown Taylor, a celebrated author and speaker. He wrote a bombshell of a book that revolutionized the traditional portrait of Jesus. that gave wings to the civil rights movement. Thurman forged a connection between Mohandas Gandhi and the Rev. Howard Thurman a mystic but his friends and students said he was a mesmerizing storyteller and a genuinely kind man.
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