He said to me, “What are you doing over here? I know what the newspapers say. I was invited by the principal to have coffee. It was at a meeting in Ceylon that the whole crucial issue was pointed up to me in a way that I can never forget. In the fall of 1935 I was serving as chairman of a delegation sent on a pilgrimage of friendship from the students of America to the students of India, Burma, and Ceylon. The search for an answer to this question is perhaps the most important religious quest of modern life. what religion offers to meet their own needs.
What does our religion say to them? The issue is. the poor, the disinherited, the dispossessed. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times that I have heard a sermon on the meaning of religion, of Christianity, to the man who stands with his back against the wall. The meditation ends with a question that I’ll hope you’ll sit with-as Thurman and his companion did for five hours-and not rush to a pat, tidy answer.
In other words, read with a contemplative stance. Today, as you read this second excerpt from Howard Thurman’s book Jesus and the Disinherited, hold an open heart and mind. Why Are You Here? Thursday, July 25, 2019
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