Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from December, 2013

Mandela--the Lion King of Qunu

After 10 days of global attention and national mourning of the death of the 95 year old anti-apartheid revolutionary and first Black President of South Africa, I am still in awe of this royal champion, this Lion-King of a man with mythic dimensions, magical powers, mystical depths of spirit, and feet of clay. I remember how his prophetic witness raised my global consciousness growing up in the 1970’s, and how supporting his call for divestment in the 1980’s added to the controversial issues that got me in trouble with my denomination.    I remember where I was and who I was cheering with on February 11, 1990, when he was finally released from prison after 27 years (it was the same day I decided to leave the church of my birth and become a United Methodist).    I want to remember and give thanks for Nelson Mandela and honor the  Source  of his  Fire  and  Flame  at Christmas time. Mandela's coffin covered with  lion skin for home-coming Today, December 15, 201