He also said ‘There comes a point where we have to stop pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why people are falling in’. Seems a perfect statement in relation to the poor desperate folk making dangerous channel crossings on flimsy rubber dinghys.
We know why they are coming. What we need to be able to do is more easily distinguish between the varying reasons for it - but for a different thread
Yes a different thread. To my thinking it was water that created the link, a river and the sea.
Yeah, not like you to politicise a discussion
Seriously? Holyjo list quotes but they’re not ‘political’. Like number 4. I mention one quote, and liken it to a humanitarian crisis and it is ‘political’?
Yes
We're celebrating the life and mourning the loss of one of the great men of our lifetimes. Park it elsewhere, eh?
Exactly the sort of person who should have been a leading cleric, clear-sighted, moral and filled with a quantity of love that allowed for forgiveness of many more than the rest of us might manage.
A man filled with Holiness, without ever claiming to be, if there is a God, the one that secured his service would be the type I'd want to see.
Desmond Tutu was a true Titan of the South African struggle over oppression, injustice & apartheid. I had the absolute pleasure to meet him when introduced by our mutual friend Lindiwe Mabusa when she was the South African High Commissioner to London . . . He was both humble & very friendly.
Sadly Lindiwe also passed away earlier this month on December 6th 🥲🥲 💔 . . .
RIP Lindiwe & Desmond. . Gone but never forgotten ❤️🙏🙏 .
Whoops! My mistake. Desmond Tutu was my mum's neighbour (but one) when she lived in Chinbrook Road Grove Park (not in Kingston). She says he was the vicar at St Augustine's and she shook his hand a few times after services.
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Didn’t realise they were such good friends.
Beautiful human.
May he RIP ♥️
RIP
RIP
An incredible man whose deep morality and impeccable Christian values played a crucial role in the struggle to bring down Apartheid in South Africa.
A man filled with Holiness, without ever claiming to be, if there is a God, the one that secured his service would be the type I'd want to see.
RIP.
A ray of sunshine.
He will be missed.
RIP