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Known as the godfather of the civil rights movement Howard Thurman served as a spiritual adviser to Martin Luther King Jr and other leaders and activists in the 1960s Thurman championed silence contemplation common unity and nonviolence as powerful dimensions of social change But Dr Lerita Coleman Brown didnt learn about him during her years of spiritualdirection training Only when a friend heard of her longing to encounter the work of Black contemplatives did she finally learn about Thurman his mystical spirituality and his liberating ethic

In What Makes You Come Alive Brown beckons listeners into their own apprenticeship with Thurman Brown walks with us through Thurmans inimitable life and commitments as he summons us into centering down encountering the natural world paying attention to sacred synchronicity unleashing inner authority and recognizing the genius of the religion of Jesus We learn from Thurmans resilience in the psychologically terrorizing climate of the Jim Crow South his encounters with Quakers and with Mahatma Gandhi and his sense of being guided by the Spirit Each chapter illuminates an aspect of Thurmans work and includes reflection questions and spiritual practices