Paul Smith was a young student at Hartford Seminary when he first heard Howard Thurman speak. Later, he formed a personal connection with the groundbreaking theologian and mystic — visiting and writing back and forth, sharing ideas and inspiration, until Thurman’s death in 1981.
Smith was a senior at Talladega College in Alabama in 1957 when Martin Luther King Jr., then a rising civil rights leader, came to speak. On behalf of his...
