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In this recording within the We Believe Series, Thurman reflects upon the spiritual, "The Blind Man Sat By the Way," which he calls a "sorrow song." When holding this song in tension with the biblical narrative of Jesus healing the blind man, Thurman comes to the conclusion that the blind man in the sorrow song was never healed. Drawing from the experience of people who were enslaved in America, Thurman reveals that there is no mentioning of the blind man being healed in the song because there…

Thurman begins this lecture by telling a story of a man with a bitter heart learning to forgive with the guidance of an angel and God. The angel strips him of all outward attributes and circumstances, which allows for the man to see everything and fully understand himself and God. After this, Thurman states how he wants to think with the audience in terms of his own journey in this lecture. Compromise is the first topic that Thurman discusses. He states that no man lives in a society that he…