A review by pkgonzales7
Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman

challenging hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

This book is rich in profound wisdom, which does not beat around the bush but addresses with stark, incisive honesty the racial, social, and political oppression of the disinherited. Thurman elucidates the distinction between the religion about Jesus from the religion of Jesus, and lays out the psychological tools of fear, deception, and hatred which can only be overcome by love between freed souls. 

I really appreciated Thurman’s realism and hope, rooted in the truth of Jesus’s life, one that has not been whitewashed or stripped bare of its transformative and revolutionary power. I can see how this inspired MLK, Jr. and hope to read more of Thurman.