One of Howard Thurman’s most important books is Jesus and the Disinherited. He had proposed to publisher Abington-Cokesbury that a better title for this book would have been The Religion of Jesus and the Disinherited because the publisher’s title collapsed the distinction, crucial for Thurman’s argument, between organized Christianity and the religion of Jesus. For Thurman, “Whenever Jesus’ spirit appears, the oppressed gather fresh courage; for he announced the good news that fear, hypocrisy, and hatred, the three hounds of hell that track the trail of the disinherited need have no dominion over them.”
In this second of three messages, Aidsand Wright-Riggins addresses the role that hypocrisy and deception play in the lives of those ‘living with their backs against the wall’ and how integrity is the only way to burst the bonds of oppression
Topics: UU Principles