MPHO TUTU VAN FURTH

Mpho Tutu van Furth is the executive director of the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation. She is an experienced preacher, teacher and public speaker. She holds a Master of Divinity degree from Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, MA. She began her ordained ministry at the Historic Christ Church in Alexandria, Virginia. Tutu van Furth co-authored Made for Goodness with her father, Archbishop Desmond Tutu. They also co-authored the foreword to Geography of Religion, a National Geographic book. She wrote the foreword of Footprints in the Sand: Caregivers of South Africa and recently co-authored Tutu: The Authorized Portrait, with renowned journalist Alister Sparks. Rev. Tutu van Furth is married to Professor Marceline Tutu van Furth; the couple has four children, Nyaniso, Pien, Julius, and Onalenna.

BOOK TITLES IN COLLABORATION WITH IDEA ARCHITECTS

Made for Goodness: And Why This Makes All the Difference
The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World
Tutu: The Authorised Portrait

THE BOOK OF FORGIVING: THE FOURFOLD PATH FOR HEALING OURSELVES AND OUR WORLD

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Chair of The Elders, and Chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, along with his daughter, the Reverend Mpho Tutu, offer a manual on the art of forgiveness—helping us to realize that we are all capable of healing and transformation.

Tutu’s role as the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission taught him much about forgiveness. If you asked anyone what they thought was going to happen to South Africa after apartheid, almost universally it was predicted that the country would be devastated by a comprehensive bloodbath. Yet, instead of revenge and retribution, this new nation chose to tread the difficult path of confession, forgiveness, and reconciliation.

Each of us has a deep need to forgive and to be forgiven. After much reflection on the process of forgiveness, Tutu has seen that there are four important steps to healing: Admitting the wrong and acknowledging the harm; Telling one’s story and witnessing the anguish; Asking for forgiveness and granting forgiveness; and renewing or releasing the relationship. Forgiveness is hard work. Sometimes it even feels like an impossible task. But it is only through walking this fourfold path that Tutu says we can free ourselves of the endless and unyielding cycle of pain and retribution. The Book of Forgiving is both a touchstone and a tool, offering Tutu’s wise advice and showing the way to experience forgiveness. Ultimately, forgiving is the only means we have to heal ourselves and our aching world.

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MADE FOR GOODNESS: AND WHY THIS MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE

Over the years the same questions get asked of Desmond Tutu, the archbishop, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and veteran of the moral movement that ended apartheid in South Africa: “How can you be so hopeful after witnessing so much evil?” “Why are you so sure goodness will triumph in the end?” This book is his answer.

Now, more than any other time in history, our world needs this message: that we are made for goodness and it is up to us to live up to our destiny.

We recognize Archbishop Tutu from the headlines as an inspirational figure who has witnessed some of the world’s most sinister moments and chosen to be an ambassador of reconciliation amid political, diplomatic, and natural disasters. Now, we get a glimpse into his personal spirituality—and a better understanding of the man behind a lifetime of good works. In this intimate and personal sharing of his heart, written with his daughter, Episcopal priest Mpho Tutu, Tutu engages his reader with touching stories from his own life, as well as grisly memories from his work in the darkest corners of the world. There, amid the darkness, he calls us to hope, to joy, and to claim the goodness that we were made for. Tutu invites us to take on the disciplines of goodness, the practices that are key to finding fulfillment, meaning, and happiness for our lives.

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