“I highly recommend What Makes You Come Alive to churches, religious and educational institutions, and spiritual seekers everywhere who are looking for an inward journey that finds its home in the world of nature, people, and things.”
— Walter Earl Fluker – Editor and Director of the Howard Thurman Papers Project
Dr. Lerita Coleman Brown is a retreat leader, speaker, spiritual companion, and professor emerita of psychology at Agnes Scott College. Professor Brown frequently speaks on contemplative spirituality and Howard Thurman. She is the author of What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman and When the Heart Speaks, Listen: Discovering Inner Wisdom. She has been featured in PBS documentaries about Howard Thurman and the Black church. She lives in Stone Mountain, Georgia.
In our conversation, Professor Brown and I talk about the life, mysticism, and work of Howard Thurman, as well as his affinity to emperor penguins. We talk about the contemplative imagination and depth of Thurman, his trust of the Spirit’s activity, and what he called “Working Papers”. Professor Brown has embodied the teachings of Howard Thurman and breathes them out in her own styling and language. More than once in this conversation, Professor Brown opened a window for me that I had painted shut. That is a rare gift.
Visit Lerita Coleman Brown at leritacolemanbrown.com | IG: @peaceforhearts
Episode Show Notes
Works by Lerita Coleman Brown
- What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman
- When the Heart Speaks, Listen: Discovering Inner Wisdom
Resources & People Mentioned
- Howard Thurman
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Walter Fluker
- Gregory Ellison II, PhD
- Sue Bailey Thurman
- Alberta King
- Gandhi
- Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman
- Deep is the Hunger by Howard Thurman
- The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
- Course in Miracles
Drink Recommended
- Mojito with fresh mint
photo pulled from leritacolemanbrown.com
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