Peace & Prosperity

Howard Thurman taught that the way to change external society was to change one’s internal reality. He was gracious, intellectual, humble, well-read and well-traveled. To know him better, I suggest we all pick up a copy of Jesus and the Disinherited, which changed my view of my responsibility to love like Jesus and my reaction to a variety of issues that seem to press against us all from before and behind. Published in 1949, this book shows that Jesus taught the oppressed people of his time a faith-based unconditional love that would enable them to endure their oppression and have agency in how they responded, in how they lived life more and more like Jesus.