Dear Families,
As a part of our ongoing series - On Being a Quaker School - I invite you to join me in considering Howard Thurman's "Mysticism and the Experience of Love". This 23-page pamphlet was first published by Pendle Hill in 1961. It has remained in publication with several reprintings. Thurman wrote and delivered this lecture to the Friends General Conference meeting at Friends School Baltimore. It was the Rufus Jones Lecture. Thurman opens by thanking the committee and mentions his time as a special student of Rufus Jones while at Haverford College. He was a graduate of Morehouse and Colgate Rochester Theological Seminary. Martin Luther King considered him a mentor.
Thurman lived 1899-1981. You can look him up on Wikipedia and at Boston University's Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground. Thurman was Dean of Marsh Chapel and Professor of Spiritual Resources and Disciplines at Boston University 1953-1965.
We will meet and discuss his pamphlet on Wednesday, January 29th at 8:30 AM in my office (or the library if needed). Even if you cannot attend, I hope you take the time to read the attached and consider getting to know Howard Thurman.
Sincerely,
Margaret Haviland
Head of School