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Deep Is the Hunger by Howard Thurman5/13/2023 What are the spiritual foundations of such communities? Together, in an imagined conversation with one another, Howard Thurman and Process Theology offer eight ideas that can support such communities. In quiet but effective ways, their sense of love includes people, other animals, and the earth. The people in these communities know that they are small but included in a larger web of life. They are, in the language of Martin Luther King, Jr., beloved communities. The building blocks of an ecological civilization are local communities that are creative, compassionate, participatory, egalitarian, multi-religious, humane to animals, and good for the earth, with no one left behind. The following eight ideas flow from an imagined conversation between one of the world's most influential religious thinkers of the past one hundred years, Howard Thurman, and the unfolding tradition of process philosophy, whose sights are now turned toward the urgent need for ecological civilizations.
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