Last Wednesday Archbishop Tutu was featured in a live Q & A webcast on The Elders.
I was amazed when the question I had sent in, became the first question on the agenda for the session. How cool is that! This is what I asked: “I read in your book ‘No Freedom Without Forgiveness’ that in Apartheid South Africa black and white were tied together and that no one could be truly free until everyone was free. Do you think the same principle applies to equality between men and women on the earth?”
Archbishop Tutu’s response: “Oh, absolutely.” He goes on to explain. You can watch it here.
Here are some of the Wisdom, for me, that came out of the session:
“We are made for complementarity.
When they say it is women who got us into trouble, in the Christian tradition, it is also woman who got us out of trouble. Imagine if Jesus had refused to become the mother of Jesus.
They (women) have a tremendous role—a central role. When the men ran away when Jesus was crucified, it was women who stood at the foot of the cross with one man from twelve. (sic)
One man of twelve. One betrayed him, One denied him—not once, but three times. But the women were there.
When Jesus rose from the dead, it was a woman he sent to the men.
We need to learn we are not meant to be competitive, we are not meant to be the same, we are made different in order to know, to show our need of one another.”
