Spiritual Leadership in Divided Times: Trauma and Thurman

The day after the 2024 US Presidential Election, Associate Professor of Theology Shelly Rambo lectured during the STH First Year Formation course about spiritual leadership in divided times. She shared that when she was faced with spiritual fatigue, she turned to theologian Howard Thurman. When Thurman wrote about trauma, he wrote about the need to “rewire neural pathways to cultivate sensations of goodness,” and how engaging with Life came for him by understand the theology of African American spirituals.