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About Team Menu. I really admire him for standing up for everyone, all across the world, even when it isn't popular. This book will make you think. It will make you question things. Especially for the first half, I wanted to quote almost every single word of it.
Hence the 7 pages of book notes with quotes. I want everyone to go out and read it, it's amazing. View 2 comments. Mar 03, Emily rated it really liked it Shelves: meridian , religion , non-fiction.
A powerful collection of Desmond Tutu's writings and speeches spanning several decades. He is an unapologetic Christian, but incredibly gifted at interfaith dialogue and outreach. There is some repetition; a man this prolific is bound to plagiarize himself at least somewhat, especially in off-the-cuff, extemporaneous remarks to groups. Many of us perhaps need to have our notion of God deepened and expanded. His concern is for all his children.
There is a Jewish story which says that soon after the episode of the drowning of the Egyptians in the Red Sea, while the Israelites were celebrating, God accosted them and demanded, 'How can you rejoice when my children have drowned? Where there is injustice and oppression, where people are treated as if they were less than who they are--those created in the image of God--you have no choice but to oppose, and oppose vehemently and oppose with all the force that you have in your being, that injustice and oppression.
It speaks of how my humanity is caught up and bound up inextricably with yours. The completely self-sufficient human being is subhuman. I can be me only if you are fully you. I am because we are, for we are made for togetherness, for family. The worst thing that can happen, it appears, is to fail. And the culture easily dismisses people as expendable, discardable, when, because they are poor or unemployed, they are judged to have failed.
We are constantly being made aware of the glorious diversity that is written into the structure of the universe we inhabit, and we are helped to see that if it were otherwise, things would go awry. How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns? That way is stagnation and ultimately death and disintegration. He is not neutral.
God is a God who is always on the side of the poor, the oppressed, the little ones who are despised; and it is for that reason that we, his church, have got to be in solidarity with the poor, the homeless, the hungry, and the oppressed.
It is necessary, though, to go beyond vigorous denunciation of violence. We must go further by insisting on the removal of the conditions which are conducive to violence. We should lower the temperature in our public discourse and hopefully thus increase the light.
We should not impugn the motives of others but accept the bona fides of all. If we believe in something, then surely we will be ready to defend it rationally, hoping to persuade those opposed to change their point of view. We should not too quickly want to pull rank and to demand an uncritical, sycophantic, obsequious conformity. View 1 comment. Apr 12, Kay rated it really liked it. I have a hard time rating non-fiction, because it creates such a different experience than fiction does.
But I've decided to give five stars to books that change my life, and this book came pretty close. I chose this book for its provocative title. I'd never heard of Desmond Tutu. What fascinated me most was that Tutu is a Christian and said God is not a Christian.
I thought to myself, "What kind of Christian is he? There are several big themes Tutu addresses in this book: religious tolerance, forgiveness, justice, celebrating differences, inclusiveness, human rights, defense of the oppressed, and non-violence. Some of these things Christians in general don't have a very good track record with.
He says God cannot be Christian because people before Christ worshiped God. Also, He created all people, and all religions. And God's concern is for all his children, not just Christians. God is not confined to one place, one time, or people.
And, if God were a Christian, what was the fate of all those who lived before Jesus was born? Were they punished for not knowing Christ, even though they had no control over it? He also discussed the African concept of "ubuntu," which translates into the concept that we need other human beings for us to learn how to be human.
We are different in order to know our need of each other. The intrinsic worth of persons is not dependent on status, race, creed, gender, or achievement. It means being humane, compassionate and gentle, caring. We matter because we are made in the image of God - all of us. This book gave me a lot to think about. It introduced me to a very important person in the history of the world. It made me knowledgeable about huge conflicts occurring in other places, which I didn't know or knew very little about.
But mostly, it gave me a huge sense of relief. Finally, someone got it right! A fantastic read. These letters and speeches by Tutu are a stirring collection which have helped make Tutu a real hero of mine. He is unafraid to speak the truth to political power and way ahead of the curve in matters of organized religion.
We need this voice and beautiful laugh in our world a little longer. Shelves: book-group. Excellent book. This is a collection of Bishop Tutu's speeches and articles in which he addresses the human condition at large and the condition of the South African people in particular both during and after Apartheid. He states frequently that he feels that people of faith need to be on the side of the oppressed, where he believes God is also, and about the shared humanity of all of God's children, regardless of their race, gender, age or sexual orientation.
This book is full of much wisdom an Excellent book. This book is full of much wisdom and great, bottomless compassion and I loved it. Nov 01, Megan Abraham rated it really liked it. Desmond Tutu is a tough guy. Fearless and dedicated to his people, Tutu was a remarkable agent of change during South Africa's apartheid era.
In this collection, he aired out his disappointments and warnings against repeating history as the government as of began slipping back into familiar waters. Renowned first for his courageous opposition to apartheidin South Africa, he and his ministry soon took on internationaldimensions. In , 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 postconflict reconstruction. He is currently the chair of The Elders, where he gives vocal defense of human rights and campaigns for the oppressed.
Prophetic words for today's world By Wimama Tutu is a truly inspiring man of faith for the postmodern world. You may not agree with everything he says, but you can't easily dismiss him either, knowing the actions that lie behind his words.
Including only excerpts makes the book much more accessible and readable than a comprehensive volume would, and the editor does an excellent job of providing the context that gives Tutu's words their real power. The first chapter addresses the "God is not a Christian" issue, and is beautifully balanced with the rest of the book, in which Tutu demonstrates his clearly Christian approach to facing injustice throughout his life. We must hold to our particular and peculiar beliefs tenaciously, not pretending that all religions are the same, for they are patently not the same.
We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God. We should in humility and joyfulness acknowledge that the supernatural and divine reality we all worship in some form or other transcends all our particular categories of thought and imagining, and that because the divine -- however named, however apprehended or conceived -- is infinite and we are forever finite, we shall never comprehend the divine completely.
So we should seek to share all insights we can and be ready to learn, for instance, from the techniques of the spiritual life that are available in religions other than our own.
It is interesting that most religions have a transcendent reference point, a mysterium tremendum , that comes to be known by deigning to reveal itself, himself, herself, to humanity; that the transcendent reality is compassionate and concerned; that human beings are creatures of this supreme, supra mundane reality in some way, with a high destiny that hopes for an everlasting life lived in close association with the divine, either as absorbed without distinction between creature and creator, between the divine and human, or in a wonderful intimacy which still retains the distinctions between these two orders of reality.
When we read the classics of the various religions in matters of prayer, meditation, and mysticism, we find substantial convergence, and that is something to rejoice at. We have enough that conspires to separate us; let us celebrate that which unites us, that which we share in common.
Surely it is good to know that God in the Christian tradition created us all not just Christians in his image, thus investing us all with infinite worth, and that it was with all humankind that God entered into a covenant relationship, depicted in the covenant with Noah when God promised he would not destroy his creation again with water.
Surely we can rejoice that the eternal word, the Logos of God, enlightens everyone -- not just Christians, but everyone who comes into the world; that what we call the Spirit of God is not a Christian preserve, for the Spirit of God existed long before there were Christians, inspiring and nurturing women and men in the ways of holiness, bringing them to fruition, bringing to fruition what was best in all.
We do scant justice and honor to our God if we want, for instance, to deny that Mahatma Gandhi was a truly great soul, a holy man who walked closely with God.
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