by Jemar Tisby | May 23, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
Editor’s Note: The following first appeared in Dr. Jemar Tisby’s Footnotes Substack. Tisby is a Good Faith Media Contributing Correspondent. Even as a historian, I am still discovering bits of the past that I did not know. In a recent conversation, someone offhandedly...
by Wendell Griffen | Dec 30, 2021 | Opinion
Archbishop Desmond Tutu passed from life in God’s love among us to life in God’s love beyond us on Boxing Day 2021 in his beloved South Africa at the full age of 90. As befitting a Nobel laureate, Desmond Tutu is remembered throughout the world as a courageous,...
by Allan A. Boesak | Dec 30, 2021 | Opinion
Editor’s note: The following sermon was was preached on Oct. 7, 20201, during a Desmond Tutu Birthday Eucharist Service at St. George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, South Africa. Dear family and siblings in Christ, what a great idea this was to have this eucharist in...
by Jon Kuhrt | May 29, 2013 | Opinion
Recently, the youth group at my church was looking at forgiveness. It is such a big issue for everyone: How can we find forgiveness for the things we feel guilt for? And how can we forgive others who have hurt us? One of the other leaders had just returned from South...
by Rebecca Weber | Oct 6, 2011 | News
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (RNS) An invitation to an 80th birthday party rarely causes ripples—unless it’s the Dalai Lama who’s trying to attend birthday festivities for fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The Dalai Lama will be unable to attend...
