... , Tutu Desmond Tutu Mpho , HarperOne , 2014 Urban Pastorals , Wilmer Clive , Worple Press , 2014 Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2015 This is a deeply insightful analysis of how self-destructive and dangerous to all humanity U.S. responses to and engagements...

... e A ssociated P ress r epo rted that The only plausible way to weigh in is with a different kind of St. Thomas University in Minneapolis had decided to not invite voice than that which Evangelicals have been hearing from the Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Prize winner for his role...

... distinguish.” Perhaps from this simple and difficult exercise of air of forgiveness enter his being.” In the we should distinguish between philosoph­ pausing before responding, and listening next paragraph, Tutu cites Jesus in sup­ ical forgiveness and the practical experi­ for meaning, for common values...

..., Col­ one is somewhere in the spectrum of im­ Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who, in his orado. In 1974 he originated the workshop on Contemplative Meditation (later known as Cen­ perfect cases and finds the results less book No Future W ithout Forgiveness...

..., Desmond Tutu s head.” Desmond he’s when point, some at and sanctity his maintain isn’t who saint only the he’s So him. for finished...

... of Broadway and Wall Street in New York, originally supported Occupy Wall Street but later refused to let the movement set up an encampment on church-owned land. When as great a man as Desmond Tutu issues two statements about the Trinity situation—the first appealing to Trinity to accommodate the protesters...

..., and listening next paragraph, Tutu cites Jesus in sup­ ical forgiveness and the practical experi­ for meaning, for common values, for our port of this view. So far as I can tell, Tutu ence of forgiveness. In practice reciprocity shared humanity. is speaking from within a Christian out­ is obviously...

.... ■ Rev. John Dear, a Jesuit priest, ju s t published his autobiography, A Persistent Peace (Loyola Press, with a foreword by Martin Sheen), and was recently nominatedfor the Nobel Peace Prize by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. See www.johndear.org...

.... It was based on a doctrine of social salvation, which was based on the Archbishop Desmond Tutu, emerging sociological idea of social structure, which gave rise to the idea of social justice. who chaired South Africa’s The novelty of the Social Gospel was not that it possessed a social ethic or got...

... can solve climate change the country’s M uslim leader and the indigenous, tribal reli­ one bike path at a time. Sadly, we can’t. We can only solve it gious leader, and Desmond Tutu’s successor as Anglican Arch­ when we get political action at a global and national level to bishop at the head...

..., a Mandela, a Chavez, a Tutu—all of whom were guided by the strength of their humility, which eventually disarmed their seeming enemies. As we read in Proverbs 15:33, “humility goes before honor.” To that I would add that humility goes before the attitudes of arrogance that have been...

.... It is impossible for any world leader to ignore the political potency of a Gandhi, a King, a Mandela, a Chavez, a Tutu—all of whom were guided by the strength of their humility, which eventually disarmed their seeming enemies. As we read in Proverbs 15:33, “humility goes before honor...

... learn from our own past failures and from those who have served a prophetic function in a broken society — from the biblical prophets and Jesus, from Gandhi and Mandela, from Tutu and King, from Luther and Duchrow, and from secular voices in society who call for peace, justice, and the sustaining...

... tivists,” including Desmond Tutu, British describe these processes. For those of us Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, the late who wonder if Palestinian and Israeli, Phoenix Poets: University of Chicago Press, 2009 Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Irish and English, or other warring...

..., WAR BIRD by David Gewanter tivists,” including Desmond Tutu, British describe these processes. For those of us Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, the late who wonder if Palestinian and Israeli, Phoenix Poets: University of Chicago Press, 2009 Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Irish...

..., particu­ larly the poorest people in the poorest countries, are even more horrendous. As Nobel Peace Prize winner Bishop Desmond Tutu noted recently, “Rain or drought, the result is the same: more hunger and misery...

... no theologian. Father William Meninger is a Trappistmonkat old of what counts as forgiveness, or if Allow me, however, to call as my witness St. Benedicts Monastery in Snowmass, Col­ one is somewhere in the spectrum of im­ Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who, in his...

... Mandela and Bishop Tutu (two of his other inspirations) who preach forgiveness and reconciliation, there are their neighbors in South Africa whose actions have given that nation the world’s thirteenth highest homicide rate and one of the highest incidences of rape, with one local survey reporting that one...

... to learn from the South African tradition of ubuntu , which deeply informed South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. As defined by Desmond Tutu, ubuntu refers to the understanding that “a person is a person through other persons” and the idea that “my humanity is caught up, is inextricably...

..., broke bread, and shared our food and our hopes for the future. The second was Christmas Eve, 1989, when South African bishop and Nobel laureate Desmond M. Tutu came to address Israelis and Palestinians—Jews, Christians, and Muslims—in Shepherd’s Field near Beit Sahour. We believed so ferventlyas we...