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Title:

One Bright Shining Moment Or Model in a Troubled World: Stories of Alienation, Peacemaking and Reconciliation in South Africa

Description: Peter Storey, professor emeritus of Duke Divinity School, is the former president of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, past president of the South African Council of Churches, and was Methodist Bishop of the Johannesburg/Soweto area for 13 years. A native South African, he served as director of a 24-hour crisis intervention service in Sydney, Australia, senior minister of the Inner-City Methodist Mission in District Six, Cape Town, and of the Central Methodist Mission in Johannesburg. In the 1960s, Professor Storey founded Life Line Counseling Centers in South Africa and served as chaplain to Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners on Robben Island.

Storey will be joined by his son, Rev. Alan Storey, ordained minister of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, for the Q&A session.  

Sponsor: School of Theology and Ministry
When: Thursday, November 05, 2009  (7 PM - 9 PM)
Where: Campion Residence Hall
(Campion Ballroom)
Web site: http://www.seattleu.edu/stm
Contact: Catherine Smith,  smithcm@seattleu.edu,  (206) 296-5330
RSVP: Not required
Access: The public is welcome to attend this event.
The press is welcome to attend this event.
 

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