Rev. Otis Moss III The Sound of the Genuine: Traversing 2020 with 'the Mystic of the Movement' Howard Thurman

Published: Oct. 15, 2020, 6:05 p.m.

b'An hour to sit with, and be filled. Two voices \\u2014 one from the last century, one from ours \\u2014 who inspire inward contemplation as an essential part of meeting the challenges in the world. Howard Thurman\\u2019s book Jesus and the Disinherited, it was said, was carried by Martin Luther King Jr. alongside the Bible and the U.S. Constitution. Thurman is remembered as a philosopher and theologian, a moral anchor, a contemplative, a prophet, and pastor to the civil rights leaders. Rev. Otis Moss III, himself the son of one of those leaders, is a bridge to Thurman\\u2019s resonance in the present day, and between the Black freedom movements then and now.'