Redeeming the Past: My Journey from Freedom Fighter to Healer

Name: Redeeming the Past: My Journey from Freedom Fighter to Healer
Brand: Orbis Books
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By Michael Lapsley

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In 1990, Fr. Michael Lapsley, an Anglican priest active in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, opened a letter bomb that nearly killed him. Though he survived, the blast took both his hands and one of his eyes. This memoir tells the story of this horrendous event, beginning with the journey that led him there--particularly his rising awareness of the radical demands of the gospel and his growing identification with the freedom struggle. But that was not the end of his inspiring journey. In post-apartheid South Africa, Lapsley saw a whole nation in need of healing from trauma both physical and spiritual. He discovered a new vocation: drawing on his own experience of trauma to promote the healing of others, in South Africa, and ultimately throughout the world, in the international Institute for the Healing of Memories.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: illustrated
Number of Pages:: 256
Release Date:: 2013-08-01
Publication Date:: 2012-05-29
Publisher:: Orbis Books
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1626980438
ISBN13:: 9781626980433
Weight:: 348 g
Height:: 144 cm
Width:: 226 cm
Thickness:: 25 cm

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