Rev’d Up

Archbishop Desmond Tutu Looks Back, Definitely Not in Anger

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/08/AR2006100801015.html

By Lynne Duke
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, October 9, 2006; C01

NEW YORK

The cleric is laughing. He laughs a lot. He can’t help it. Desmond Tutu is tickled by his life, his faith, his God, so the giggles just bubble out, cresting sometimes in a hilariously showy cackle. The former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, the David to the old Goliath that was apartheid, Tutu can be seized with this joy at just about any time.

He might be talking about weighty issues like the moral imperative, …
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http://www.sundayherald.com/58735
Sunday Herald – 29 October 2006 (Scotland)
By George Rosie

IT is easy to forget just how mind-numbingly petty South Africa’s system of “separate development” could be. Not only were the country’s non-white people denied the right to vote, live where they wanted, and forced to carry internal passports, but they existed under a burden of trivial regulation that must have sapped many spirits. That apartheid survived as long as it did – from 1948 to 1994 – speaks volumes about the forbearance of the black and “coloured” population of 20th …
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/10/18/safrica.tutu.reut/

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) — He took on the apartheid government and was South Africa’s first black bishop. He lambastes presidents and likes to party with the stars. And at 75, Desmond Tutu still cannot keep quiet.

“Rabble-rouser for peace,” a new authorized biography of one of South Africa’s best-loved citizens, paints a picture of a man who revels in the limelight and adores the trappings of celebrity, but spends up to seven hours a day in silent prayer.

The book by Tutu’s former press secretary John Allen traces Tutu’s life from his humble …
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http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-10-19-voa69.cfm
By Amanda Cassandra
New York
19 October 2006

Nobel Prize winner and influential religious leader Desmond Tutu was in New York to talk about South Africa’s struggle with apartheid and his personal path to becoming an activist as detailed in a new biography.

Archbishop Tutu discussed his career transformation from an Anglican priest to one of the founders of democracy in South Africa with John Allen, his friend and author of the book Rabble-Rouser for Peace: The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu.

Tutu says he did not start out wanting to be a civil rights leader.

“I didn’t …
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http://www.nysun.com/article/41881
BY GABRIELLE BIRKNER – Staff Reporter of the Sun
October 19, 2006

The Anglican archbishop who rose to fame as a fervent but always peaceful opponent of South African apartheid, Desmond Tutu, last night urged Christians to avoid making sweeping generalizations about members of other religions.

“Today, when we say, ‘That faith is a faith that encourages violence,’ we have to look at ourselves in the mirror,” he told more than 600 people who packed Manhattan’s Trinity Church. The 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner then condemned Christianity’s role in historical atrocities such as slavery, …
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http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1547110,00.html

The South African Archbishop talks about aging, Darfur and Nelson Mandela’s sense of style

By SONJA STEPTOE
Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2006

Desmond Tutu may be retired, but he isn’t retiring. Wise and witty as ever, the Nobel-prizewinning South African Archbishop remains an outspoken and compelling figure 12 years after his nonviolent activism helped abolish apartheid. Earlier this month, he marked his 75th birthday with the release of his authorized biography, Rabble-Rouser for Peace. Tutu talked with Time’s Sonja Steptoe about aging, the divisions in the Anglican Church and Nelson Mandela’s questionable sense of style.

TIME: What’s …
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Rebecca Harrison | Johannesburg, South Africa
18 Oct 2006 10:44

He took on the apartheid government and was South Africa’s first black bishop. He lambasts presidents and likes to party with the stars. And at 75, Desmond Tutu still can’t keep quiet. Rabble-rouser for peace, a new authorised biography of one of South Africa’s best-loved citizens, paints a picture of a man who revels in the limelight and adores the trappings of celebrity, but spends up to seven hours a day in silent prayer.

The book by Tutu’s former press secretary John Allen traces Tutu’s …
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