Redeeming the Past: My Journey From Freedom Fighter to Healer - Softcover

Lapsley, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1626980438 ISBN 13: 9781626980433

Publisher: Orbis Books, 2012

Synopsis

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, Fr. Lapsley saw a whole nation in need of healing. 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Lapsley, born in New Zealand, joined the Society for the Sacred Mission, and was sent to South African in 1973. There he became active in the anti-apartheid movement, ultimately joining the African National Congress. After surviving an assassination attempt, he returned to South African to found the Institute for Healing of Memories. Stephen Karakashian is an American psychotherapist who has worked with Fr. Michael and the institute in South Africa and the United States. He lives in Portland.

Review:

Michael s life represents a compelling metaphor . . . a foreigner who came to our country and was transformed. His life is part of the tapestry of the many long journeys and struggles of our people. --Nelson Mandela, former President of the Republic of South Africa

With dry, self-deprecating wit, Lapsley treats readers to an emotional, gripping tale of a priest, his prosthetics, and his promise, as St. Teresa of Avila put it, to be Christ s hands in the world. --Publishers Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: Orbis Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1626980438
• ISBN 13: 9781626980433
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256