Desmond Tutu
How Tutu’s spirituality incorporated Christian mysticism with the African notion of interdependency
By Michael Battle — April 14, 2021
(RNS) — Tutu’s worldview of Christian mysticism counteracts the system of apartheid. His Ubuntu incorporates the African Bantu perspective of personhood with a mystical image of God’s diversity in unity.
Reconciliation needs truth
By Jim Wallis — January 29, 2021
(RNS) — Evangelical leaders wonder how many of their constituents rampaged at the Capitol or sympathized with those who did.
Seeking unity, Biden should look to Nelson Mandela
By Eboo Patel — January 22, 2021
(RNS) — The new president should craft a strategy that welcomes the willing from the other side back into the circle of decency.
Will the Mormon president apologize to the NAACP for the church’s past racism?
By Jana Riess — July 19, 2019
(RNS) — Short answer: probably not, but a columnist can dream.
Desmond Tutu checks into hospital for infection
By Jerome Socolovsky — August 25, 2016
CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Veteran South African anti-apartheid campaigner Desmond Tutu checked into a Cape Town hospital for a recurring infection, his daughter said on Wednesday. The bug put the former cleric in the hospital for a week last year.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s daughter quits priesthood after marrying a woman
By Fredrick Nzwili — May 24, 2016
(RNS) Although South Africa legalized same-sex marriage in 2006, the Anglican Church maintains that marriage is a lifelong union between one man and one woman.
South Africa’s Tutu expected home from hospital next week
By Reuters — August 27, 2015
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) Tutu was released from hospital earlier in August after being treated for a recurring infection unrelated to the prostrate cancer he has been fighting for 18 years.
Pope declares Sept. 1 ‘World Day of Prayer’ for environment
By Rosie Scammell — August 10, 2015
VATICAN (RNS) The announcement of the annual prayer day is the latest move by Pope Francis to push environmental issues up the global agenda.
Desmond Tutu’s four steps to forgiving others: An RNS interview
By Jonathan Merritt — August 25, 2014
The Nobel prize winner offers advice on how to heal the heart after being hurt.
Shaped by Methodists, Mandela paid tribute to the role of religion
By Fredrick Nzwili — December 6, 2013
(RNS) Nelson Mandela was educated, first at Clarkebury and then at Healdtown, Methodist boarding schools that provided a Christian liberal arts education.
Seminary, private college form Desmond Tutu center
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — September 13, 2013
(RNS) Christian Theological Seminary and Butler University announced the creation of The Desmond Tutu Center, considered North America’s first and only academic center named after the religious leader.
Interview: Desmond Tutu on gay rights, the Middle East and Pope Francis
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — September 13, 2013
(RNS) "Naming a center after a person who is still alive can make it seem that an individual somehow on their own was able to accomplish what he accomplished. It was our people. "
Child abuse allegations mar anniversary of celebrated Anglican bishop
By Trevor Grundy — June 25, 2013
(RNS) A recently released Scotland Yard file on Bishop Trevor Huddleston alleges the late Anglican leader and celebrated anti-apartheid activist was a child molester.
Desmond Tutu wins 2013 Templeton Prize for work on forgiveness
By Chris Herlinger — April 4, 2013
(RNS) The back-to-back wins by the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu signal a shift for the Templeton Prize, which in recent years had gone to little-known physicists and theologians.
Why I support same-sex marriage: a religious argument in solidarity
By Omid Safi — March 27, 2013
This is the reason that I ultimately came over from the cautious supporting “civil union” side to supporting full marriage. We don’t want a society in which some people are “kind of” married, sort of married. We don’t want a two-tiered model of marriage. We don’t want a two-tiered model of justice. We don’t want a two-tiered model of citizenship. A two-tiered justice is not justice, and a two-tiered citizenship is not real citizenship.
