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Safe spaces: A place for dialogue and forgiveness

In times of crisis, churches rise to the occasion. Rich Preheim’s article about ministry on the Gulf Coast makes me proud of the often-maligned institutional church, which has poured dollars and volunteers into the disaster-struck areas. Ronald Wells’s article on reconciliation in Northern Ireland shows us the church, in the person of Desmond Tutu, engaged in a difficult but critical witness for peace and reconciliation.

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Facing truth: A televised reconciliation in Northern Ireland

Desmond Tutu makes headlines, and often changes hearts and minds. In the fall of 2005, the headlines were made in Belfast, where Tutu, former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, was filming Facing the Truth, three programs for the Northern Irish BBC that aired in Britain on three consecutive days in March of this year.