Episcopal Presiding Bishop, Archbishop Tutu to discuss mission in live webcast

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Episcopal Presiding Bishop, Archbishop Tutu to discuss mission in
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Episcopal Presiding Bishop, Archbishop Desmond Tutu

to discuss mission in live webcast

May 19 from Washington National Cathedral

[April 23, 2012] Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine
Jefferts Schori will conduct a conversation about mission with
Archbishop Desmond Tutu in a live webcast on Saturday, May 19 at
3:30 pm Eastern (2:30 pm Central, 1:30 pm Mountain, 12:30 pm
Pacific, 11:30 am Alaska, 9:30 am Hawaii).

The live webcast will be available at no fee on the website of
the Episcopal Church  [http://www.episcopalchurch.org] and will
be available on demand afterwards.

Hosted by Washington National Cathedral, the event will be
moderated by David Crabtree, news anchor at WRAL-TV in North
Carolina and an ordained deacon.

Framing the conversation on the Anglican Five Marks of Mission,
the questions to be explored are: "What does Mission mean to me"
; and "What does mission look like in the world."

"I look forward to a stimulating conversation with Archbishop
Tutu, and am very grateful for this opportunity to prompt wider
conversation about God's mission," Presiding Bishop Jefferts
Schori stated.

The May 19 event is the first in a series of discussions about
mission with the Presiding Bishop and other prominent religious
leaders.

The event is ideal for congregation and group viewing, adult
forums, discussion groups, etc.

Archbishop Tutu

A 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Archbishop Tutu is well known in
the Anglican Communion and throughout the world. A leader of
peace, he was born in 1931 in Klerksdorp, Transvaal, and in 1954
he graduated from the University of South Africa. He was
ordained as a priest in 1960.

In 1975 he was appointed Dean of St. Mary's Cathedral in
Johannesburg, the first black to hold that position. Between
1976 and 1978 Tutu was the Bishop of the Anglican Church in
Lesotho and the General Secretary of the South African Council
of Churches. In 1976, protests in Soweto over the Apartheid
government's enforcement of Afrikaans as a compulsory medium of
instruction in black schools culminated in the massacre of
dozens of students, which triggered widespread unrest and world
outrage.

Tutu had become increasingly outspoken about Apartheid and the
privations suffered by blacks. Although his criticism was
unflinching, he constantly urged reconciliation between all
sides. Like many who spoke out against Apartheid, he was
harassed by the state security police and his passport was
confiscated.

Desmond Tutu continued to speak out against the injustice of
Apartheid and in 1984 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for
his efforts, the first South African to receive the accolade
since Albert Luthuli in 1961.

In 1985, he was appointed the Bishop of Johannesburg and a year
later became the first black cleric to lead the Anglican Church
in South Africa when he was named Archbishop of Cape Town. From
1987 to 1997 he served as president of the All Africa Conference
of Churches.

Archbishop Tutu urged foreign disinvestment in South Africa as a
way to pressure the government to dismantle Apartheid, and was
the focus of harassment by the security police as a result. Like
murdered activist Steve Biko, he also urged civil disobedience.
It led to events such as the "purple rain" protest in Cape Town
in 1989, where protesters were sprayed with purple dye to
identify them to the police for arrest later.

Following the democratic elections in 1994, the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was set up to bear witness to,
record and in some cases, grant amnesty to the perpetrators of
crimes relating to human rights violations.

[http://www.tutu.org/bio-desmond-tutu.php]

The Anglican Five Marks of Mission

The Five Marks of Mission were developed by the Anglican
Consultative Council between 1984 and 1990 and have won wide
acceptance among Anglicans, and have given parishes and dioceses
around the world a practical and memorable "checklist" for
mission activities.

The Five Marks of Mission are:

1. To proclaim the Good News of the Kingdom

2. To teach, baptize and nurture new believers

3. To respond to human need by loving service

4. To seek to transform unjust structures of society

5. To strive to safeguard the integrity of creation and sustain
and renew the life of the earth

The Five Marks of Mission:
[http://www.episcopalchurch.org/page/five-marks-mission]

Washington National Cathedral

Washington National Cathedral is called to be the spiritual home
for the nation. It seeks to be a catalyst for spiritual harmony
in our nation, renewal in the churches, reconciliation among
faiths, and compassion in our world.

Washington National Cathedral:
[http://www.nationalcathedral.org/]

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