Welcome to the conversations that matter podcast. My name is John Harris. We're

going to talk today a little bit about Desmond Tutu Archbishop from South Africa

Anglican known for his contributions to theology as far

as black theology and African theology, but also and more importantly, perhaps as far as from a global media standpoint,

his activity, anti-apartheid activity and his activity on we going to talk about him?

His activity on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa.

And so why are we going to talk about him?

Well, the reason is because two things. Number one, Desmond Tutu is in the

same breath as Gandhi and Mother Teresa, Desmond Tutu is now kind of reaching that status and MLK and so I think it's

important we know a little bit about his theology. We see with MLK that his theology can be abysmal but because of his political activity that's kind of it

It redeem him and if you go after him you're're racist. That's the thing.

If you critique, even his theology,

you must have some problem with his political activity

and you must have a problem with racial justice

or something like that.

And I think the same thing goes for Desmond Tutu.

Now, I don't live in South Africa, so I don't know.

His status he has reached there is probably much more enshrined than it is here as far as

respect and all of that and saint-like status but I think it's probably coming here. It has come here to some extent you do hear his name a little bit

But the second reason is because his name is brought up frequently on a certain website I shouldn't say frequently

regularly often enough and that's the Gospel Coalition website and

Desmond Tutu died not too long ago and some brothers brought to my attention the fact

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