While the world has indeed been slowly opening up again, 2021 was still another year of pandemic life. It was a tough one for me and for many, and I needed something to steal my focus. And so I decided to read and listen to theologian Howard Thurman through the year and into this New Year. I started with a classic I’d read before, Jesus and the Disinherited. I then moved on to an audiobook version of The Living Wisdom of Howard Thurman and returned to paperback as I read Meditations of the Heart. I closed the year by reading The Inward Journey. It has been time well spent: easing the heaviness of the time while offering inspiration and its own worthy challenges. Read the full article here.