Tag: Nelson Mandela

Remembering Mr. Nelson Mandela

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Yesterday, we learned of political prisoner, former South African President and international symbol of forgiveness and reconciliation Nelson Mandela’s passing at age 95.  He was affectionately called “Madiba” and his story reminds me of the Old Testament’s Joseph (Genesis 37).  Sentenced to life imprisonment, he was released after twenty- seven years in 1990 at the […]

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Mandela’s Last Supper

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Allan Boesak, co- author of Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism and Christian Quietism, recently brought this image to my attention.  I  was in attendance at Howard University’s School of Divinity’s 96th Annual Alumni Convocation for which he and Curtiss DeYoung were the guest speakers.  Boesak shared with us his insights on race, South African apartheid […]

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