false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172342354m/165811.jpg 165811 5 Archbishop Desmond Tutu stands alongside Nelson Mandela as one of the most iconic figures of the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa. As archbishop of Cape Town throughout the 1980s, Tutu came to symbolize dignified, rational opposition to the iniquities of the apartheid regime, a faithful irreverence for unjust authority that led to his being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984. In 1995 he took up his greatest challenge, as chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the remarkable yet harrowing attempt by South Africans to come to terms with the gross violations of human rights committed throughout the apartheid era by offering amnesty and forgiveness rather than punishment and dismissal. <I>No Future Without Forgiveness</I> is Tutu's remarkable personal memoir of his time as chair of the commission. It records his insistence of the need to discover a "third way" in the healing of the national psyche and his powerful belief that "we can indeed transcend the conflicts of the past, we can hold hands as we realize our common humanity." Tutu's characteristic humor, resilience, and compassion are evoked in a way that demonstrates how essential they have been to his unique political style--and his ability to get results where all others failed. He recalls the darkest days of apartheid's "vicious awfulness" when, preaching about God's authority, he was "frequently tempted to whisper in God's ear, 'For goodness sake, why don't You make it more obvious that <I>You are</I> in charge?"' <I>No Future Without Forgiveness</I> could be profitably read alongside Antjie Krog's equally compelling <I>Country of My Skull</I>, as it considers the emotional toll that such a process of national soul-searching has had upon its participants. As Tutu himself points out, "It is a costly business to try to heal a wounded and traumatized people, and those engaging in that crucial task will perhaps bear the brunt themselves ... we were, in Henri Nouwen's celebrated phrase, 'wounded healers.'" <I>--Rachel Holmes, Amazon.co.uk</I> 1520177 1999 No Future Without Forgiveness total:235|5:98|4:86|3:40|2:8|1:3| 235 973 422 52 5 2 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Wed Oct 17 14:03:15 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 14 19:07:33 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 01:26:26 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 15:35:37 -0700 2009
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It seems to me that Tutu's approach to sin is in much need in today's world- "sin" as defined not in which culturally-particular moralities we embody but in terms of what actual harm we do to people and the wor...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Apr 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 08:07:30 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 10:47:37 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sat Feb 23 09:48:10 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 01 13:19:57 -0800 2008
"'Ubuntu' is very difficult to render into a Western language. It speaks of the very essence of being human. When we want to give high praise to someone we say, 'Yu, u nobuntu'; 'Hey, so and...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=165811