A review by joncoutts
Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman

5.0

"It ill behooves the man who is not forced to live in a ghetto to tell those who must how to transcend its limitations. Full of pastoral wisdom and social conscience, this is as convicting a book as one could hope to read. Written for those on the underside of oppression, it is arresting to read it from the advantaged side and to reckon yourself the enemy to be loved. Thurman is the opposite of disheartening, however. Reading this, one glimpses the spiritual strength of that generation which raised and then stood behind the civil rights activists that were soon to come.