How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

And one day, this thing happened to me: I coughed, and the blood just came gushing out of my mouth. ... I still can't believe that that happened to me, but I sat there, and I said to God, 'Well, if it means I'm going to die, that's OK.' I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well as to the perpetrator.

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.

The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.