Made for Goodness: And Why This Makes All the Difference

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Author: Desmond Tutu

ISBN-10: 0061706590

ISBN-13: 9780061706592

Category: Africa - Political Biography

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The Nobel Peace Prize winner and international icon of reconciliation shares his vision on why we can find hope and joy in the world's darkest moments because we are made for goodness. Publishers Weekly Nobel Peace Prize–winner Desmond Tutu, who lived through South African apartheid and helped to clean up its criminal consequences by chairing the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, could write a grocery list and people would get something out of it. With his daughter Mpho, an Episcopal priest in Washington, D.C., the retired Anglican archbishop writes a relatively personal book about his fundamental, faith-based beliefs about human nature: people are basically good because they are made in God’s image. He maintains this in the face of the horrific events he has witnessed in his country and elsewhere, and he bases his belief in part on simple experiences throughout his life that have involved family and, significantly, his failures. Tutu’s humility is striking; he is comfortable in his own skin despite being raised in a culture that officially deemed his skin color second-class. This book is not nearly as dramatic or compelling as No Future Without Forgiveness, based on his work with the Reconciliation Commission; on the other hand, it is heartening to know, or remember, that faith can be learned, reinforced, and expressed as much around the dinner table as in the public square. (Mar.)

Preface ix1 The Difference Goodness Makes 12 Stop "Being Good" 223 An Invitation to Wholeness 454 Free to Choose 655 The Habits of Wrongness 946 Where Is God When We Suffer? 1107 Where Is God When We Fail 1278 Why Does God Let Us Sin? 1479 Going Home to Goodness 16110 Hearing God's Voice 18311 Seeing with God's Eyes 208Acknowledgements 233