Desmond Tutu

Anglican priest Desmond Mpilo Tutu won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 and was only the second black person ever to receive it. In 1986 he was elected Archbishop of Cape Town, the highest position in the Anglican Church in South Africa. In 1994, after the end of Apartheid and the election of Nelson Mandela, Tutu was appointed as chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to investigate apartheid-era crimes. His policy of forgiveness and reconciliation has become an international example of conflict resolution, and a trusted method of post-conflict reconstruction. He is currently the chair of The Elders where he gives vocal defense of human rights and campaigns for the oppressed.

Mpho Tutu is executive director of the Tutu Institute for Prayer and Pilgrimage in Washington D.C, an Episcopal priest, and serves as chair of the board of the Global Aids Alliance.

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Catholicism

Christian Living

Politics and Religion

Made for Goodness

And Why This Makes All the Difference

Talking Points

Nobel Peace Prize winner and international cultural icon, Desmond Tutu, is regularly in the media ranging from the New York Times and Vanity Fair to CNN and evening television talk shows.  Desmond Tutu continues to be involved with and speak on all of the current crises facing the world.  He shares his vision on why we can find hope and joy in the world’s darkest moments because we are made for goodness.

Description

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has witnessed some of the world’s darkest moments, for decades fighting the racist government policy of aprtheid and since then being an ambassador of peace amidst political, diplomatic, and natural disasters. Yet people continue to find him one of the most joyful and hopeful people they have encountered. In Made for Goodness, Tutu shares his source of strength and optimism.

Written with his daughter, Mpho, who is also an ordained Anglican minister, Tutu argues that God has made us for goodness, and when we simply start walking in the direction of this calling, God is there to meet us, encourage us, embrace us. God has made the world as a grand theater for us to work out this call to goodness; it is up to us to live up to this calling, but God is there to help us every step of the way. So tackling our worst problems takes on new meaning and is bostered with hope and the expectation that that is exactly where God will show up. Father and daughter offer an inspiring message of hope that will transform readers into activists for change and blessing.

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Christian Living

Politics and Religion

God Is Not a Christian

And Other Provocations

Talking Points

Desmond Tutue is a Nobel Peace Prize winner and international cultural icon who is regularly in the media ranging from the New York Times and Vanity Fair to CNN and the evening television talk shows. He continues to be involved with and speak on all of the current crises facing the world.

Description

In God Is Not a Christian, the archbishop’s biographer, John Allen, has assembled the best examples of Tutu’s voice as it has shown a light in the darkness. Through speeches, letters, and interviews, we glimpse how his moral vision confronts the dark world around him. Here we read the best of Tutu as he explores topics such as reconciliation after the atrocities of apartheid and later Rwanda, how we can celebrate differences and welcome a variety of voices to the table—whether it is black theology, the inclusion of gays and lesbians, or the plight of Palestinians. God is Not a Christian is an intimate, provocative exploration into how one man’s faith is bringing healing and reconciliation to the world.

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