inspiration anglicanism development anniversary

books:

Africa - Up in Smoke?: The Second Report from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development
Andrew Simms, Hannah Reid

Oxfam Publishing, 2006

Africa - Up in Smoke?--the second report from a coalition of the U.K.'s top environment and development groups, the Working Group on Climate Change and Development--says that efforts to alleviate poverty in Africa will ultimately fail unless urgent action is taken to halt dangerous climate change. The report says that G8 nations have failed to ?connect-the-dots? between climate change and Africa. Unless addressed, this could condemn generations ...

AIDS and South Africa: The Social Expression of a Pandemic
Kyle Dean Kauffman, David L. Lindauer, ...

Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

The HIV/AIDS pandemic striking South Africa is of historic proportions. More people are living with AIDS in South Africa than in any other country in the world. Just in the past decade, the life expectancy in South Africa has dropped from 67 to 43 years. The social and economic impact of this disease is hard to overstate. However, what is striking is the paucity of thoughtful, reflective scholarship and writing on the subject. AIDS and South ...

An African Prayer Book

4 reviews
Desmond Tutu

Doubleday, 1995

Luminous - a wonderful collection of prayers and devotions
In "The African Prayer Book," Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town has assembled a series of prayers on such topics as adoration, contrition, thanksgiving, supplication and daily life; ranging from authors who wrote their prayers in antiquity, and those living in modern times. Although the primary focus is Christian, prayers from other faith traditions are included. This ...

Believe: The Words and Inspiration of Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Me-We)

Blue Mountain Arts, 2007

A collection of words and inspiration by four of the 20th Century's most preeminent humanitarians.

After the Locusts: Letters from a Landscape of Faith

1 review
Denise M. Ackermann, Desmond Tutu

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2003

Suffering and Faith
Written in the form of letters to the people in her life closest to her, these essays blaze with the intensity of life deeply felt and faith forged in the crucible of base cruelty, soaring beauty and redemption that is South Africa. Having stripped away the usual academic lingo, this theologian, who describes herself as a cultural hybrid and a feminist, takes on such subjects as cultural and ...

The Church Struggle In South Africa, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
John W. De Gruchy, Steve de Gruchy, ...

Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2005

This widely acclaimed and influential volume is now available in a greatly revised and expanded twenty-fifth anniversary edition that places the monumental religious struggle against South African apartheid into a larger and instructive global setting. De Gruchy's authoritative and newly updated account of Christian complicity with and then resistance to one of the world's most notoriously repressive regimes holds indispensable lessons and ...

A Church for the Future: South Africa and the Future of Anglicanism

1 review
Harold T. Lewis

Church Publishing, 2007

A Church for the Future??
A Church for the Future: South Africa and the Future of Anglicanism I found Mr. Lewis' book interesting; it enlarged my historical understanding of developments in the Anglican Communion. However, the interpretive viewpoint is that of liberal mainline Christianity. The book is best read alongside such authors as Thomas C. Oden (How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind). At present, the ...

Challenging Homophobia: Teaching about Sexual Diversity

Trentham Books, 2007

* With a Foreword by Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate and Archbishop emeritus * Valuable combination of psychological insights and practical suggestions for better educational practice Challenging Homophobia brings together accounts of how educators in various national and cultural contexts are dealing with prejudice, discrimination, stereotyping and sometimes overt violence against sexual minorities--particularly lesbian and gay youth and ...