Then Peter came up and said to Him, “Lord, how many times shall my brother sin against me and I still forgive him? Up to seven times?” Jesus *said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy-seven times.-Matthew 18:21-22

He goes on, “I am deeply convinced that in the general area of my inquiry is to be found the answer without which there can be little hope that men find in Christianity the fulfillment which it claims for its gospel” (ibid., xix) In his preface, Thurman asks a question many of us have asked, “Why is it that Christianity seems impotent to deal radically, and therefore effectively, with the issues of discrimination and injustice on the basis of race, religion, and national origin?” (ibid.” xix). xii) Vincent will go on to suggest that Howard Thurman’s work answers this question, “the ultimate issue is not being more moral than white folks, but becoming more free than we have ever been, free to engage our fullest powers in the transformative tasks that await us at the wall” (ibid., xvi-xvii). King, why do we have to be more moral than white folks?”(Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited, Beacon Press, 1976, p. From the introduction of the 1996 edition, written by Vincent Harding: “Not too long before King’s assassination in 1968 Stokley asked with mock innocence, ‘Dr. This week we are praying through Howard Thurman’s 1976 book Jesus and the Disinherited.

Jesus the disinherited