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Redeeming the Past: My Journey from Freedom Fighter to Healer
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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.
Michael Lapsley was an Anglican priest and a member of the Anglican monastic order the Society of the Sacret Mission. When he was sent by his order to South Africa in 1973 he was struck by the injustice he found in the country. He was deported to Lesotho, where he joined one of the main opposition groups, the banned African National Congress. He later moved to Zimbabwe where he was injured by a parcel bomb sent by agents of the dying apartheid regime. He moved to Cape Town where he started the Institute for Healing of Memories, a wounded healer contributing to healing the wounded land.
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| Author | Father Michael Lapsley & Stephen Karakashian |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Struik Inspirational |
| Place | Cape Town |
| Year | 2012 |
| ISBN | 9781415322918 |
| Binding | Paperback |
| Condition | As New |
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