For all the saints who disturb our comfortable lives: Peter Storey

I had the distinct privilege of hearing South African Methodist minister and bishop emeritus Peter Storey speak about his journey from the 1960s to today. He spoke Thursday night at Seattle University.   He was extraordinarily powerful, describing in an unusually detailed way the process of truth and reconciliation as it was practiced in the years after the collapse of the Apartheid regime.  That process, he said, was driven by the question, "How are we going to live with such an evil past?"

A couple of provocative phrases he shared: we have, he said, 'let our institutions do our sinning for us'.  In the face of such masking of our common responsiblity for sin and evil, he spoke of the 'church's role in the stewardship of truth.'  As an example, he said as a way to describe the importance of the truth and reconciliation process, that 'some evils are too big for the law, that only grace can intervene.' Such truth needs to be said, can only be said, by the church.

Here's a link to his book of sermons across his very distinguished career.

anon, and +peace,

Chris

Comments

[Andy Rowell]

I have the one Amazon.com review of the book. Storey is great!