The Power of the Pulpit

Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace-prizewinning bishop of Johannesburg, last week bid an emotional goodbye to his diocese. But before taking over as Archbishop of Cape Town and primate of the Anglican Church for all of southern Africa, he conducted a final service at St. Paul's Church in the black township of Soweto. In his farewell sermon, Tutu declared, "Despite all that the powers of the world may do, we are going to be free."

For much of the world, Tutu, 54, symbolizes the battle against apartheid. From his new position, he will be the spiritual leader of 1.3 million South Africans,...

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