Posts Tagged ‘south africa’

As my heart was being warmed by this generous movie, with its superb performances by Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon, I remembered the second half of this drama, which played out in South Africa in 1997 and 1998. This was an equally important occasion, but much harder to film for Hollywood.

Desmund Tutu recently gave a lecture for The Forgiveness Project – a U.K. based organization doing some incredible work with story telling and forgiveness.

This week I made some presentations on South Africa and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to 8th graders at the nearby Waynesville Middle School. Most of them are heavily involved in the Peacejam Program…

http://www.ep-video.com/ UMPH’s “Living the Good Life Together” video on “Crafting Communities of Forgiveness”, featuring Peter Storey, shares the story of reconciliation within churches affected by apartheid in South Africa and the resulting lessons of forgiveness for us. For order information on this series, go tohttp://www.cokesbury.com