Tag: Howard Thurman

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    Love in the Jesus Tradition

    Nijay Gupta has this quote from Howard Thurman on the love of Christ: The religion of Jesus says to the disinherited: “Love your enemy. Take the initiative in seeking ways by which you can have an experience of the common sharing of mutual worth and value. It may be hazardous, but you must do it.

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    Creating what is good

    David Brooks draws from Howard Thurman’s book Jesus and the Disinherited to discuss how to create deep change in our communities. (HERE) Basically, it is hard work. It is worthy work.

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    Howard Thurman: Jesus and the Disinherited

    My next book is a re-read from earlier this year: Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman. It is part of the Renovare Book Club and so I am working my way back through the book. A PBS documentary on the life of Howard Thurman: https://player.pbs.org/viralplayer/3019930578/

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    Living in the destiny of God

    For the privileged and the underprivileged alike, if the individual puts at the disposal of the Spirit the needful dedication and discipline, he can live effectively in the chaos of the present in the high destiny of a son of God. — Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited

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    The FOCUS of the disinherited

    “… the child of the disinherited is like to live a heavy life. A ceiling is placed on his dreaming by the counsel of despair coming from his elders, whom experience has taught to expect little and to hope for less. If, on the other hand, the elders understand in their own experiences and lives the tremendous insight of Jesus,…

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    Fear and intimidation in the oppressor

    Howard Thurman’s book Jesus and the Disinherited, published in 1949, is still a prophetic voice into our current world. It is time for change. Thurman walks through the fear that keeps the oppressed “in their place.” Fear of violent action causes the oppressed to fall into an “unremitting status of inferiority.” But Thurman also demonstrates how fear works in the…

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    The constant threat on the marginalized in our world

    Written in 1949, Howard Thurman’s Jesus and the Disinherited still shouts into our conscience if we will listen. Now seems to be the time to hear.