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

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🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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An hour to sit with, and be filled. Two voices — one from the last century, one from ours — who inspire inward contemplation as an essential part of meeting the challenges in the world. Howard Thurman’s 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’s resonance in the present day, and between the Black freedom movements then and now.

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0:00.0	Support for on-being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build
0:04.5	the Spiritual Foundation for a loving world.
0:07.8	Fetzer's new study, what does spirituality mean to us?
0:11.4	Reveals how spirituality informs our understanding of ourselves and each other, and inspires us
0:16.5	to take action for the common good.
0:19.0	Explore these findings and more at spiritualitystudy.org.
0:23.9	Howard Thurman is one of the most influential philosophers and spiritual teachers of the
0:29.1	20th century, and his influence is rising again for new generations.
0:34.4	It was said that Martin Luther King Jr. carried Thurman's book, Jesus and the Disinherited,
0:40.0	alongside the Bible and the Constitution.
0:43.5	Thurman insisted on a place for spiritual nurture at the heart of social activism, and he
0:48.7	brought a searching theology of Jesus to that.
0:52.6	He was at the same time meditating in the early 20th century, traveling to India, bringing
0:58.8	the teachings of Gandhi and Tick-N-Tackhan to the civil rights leaders, even influencing
1:04.2	Jewish mysticism.
1:05.7	Today, we bring Howard Thurman's wisdom forward, exploring its resonance in the theology
1:12.3	and life of a religious leader in the year 2020.
1:15.8	Otis moths the third.
1:17.7	He is a theological but also a literal bridge between Howard Thurman, the black freedom
1:24.0	movements of the last century, and of ours.
1:27.7	I'm Christa Tippett, and this is on being.
1:35.0	Howard Thurman was born in 1899, and he died in 1981 in San Francisco, where he co-founded
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