Archbishop Desmond Tutu has witnessed some of the world's darkest moments, for decades fighting the racist government policy of aprtheid and since then being an ambassador of peace amidst political, diplomatic, and natural disasters. Yet people continue to find him one of the most joyful and hopeful people they have encountered. In Made for Goodness, Tutu shares his source of strength and optimism. Written with his daughter, Mpho, who is also an ordained Anglican minister, Tutu argues that God has made us for goodness, and when we simply start walking in the direction of this calling, God is there to meet us, encourage us, embrace us. God has made the world as a grand theater for us to work out this call to goodness; it is up to us to live up to this calling, but God is there to help us every step of the way. So tackling our worst problems takes on new meaning and is bostered with hope and the expectation that that is exactly where God will show up. Father and daughter offer an inspiring message of hope that will transform readers into activists for change and blessing. As head of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Tutu reached a world audience in his call for forgiveness for apartheid perpetrators who confessed to horrific evil and said they were sorry. Writing here with his daughter, also a minister, he insists that, with all the horror he has heard about and witnessed, We are fundamentally good. Racism has to be learned. It is not an instinct. Sin is real. But goodness is normative. Even readers not focused on the religious debate will be drawn to this account for the insider’s view of the history and the personal struggle with forgiveness. Inspired by heroes of many faiths, including Father Trevor Huddleston; Afrikaaans cleric Beyers Naude; the kids in the 1976 Soweto riots; the parents of murdered Amy Biehl; and, of course, by Mandela, Gandhi, King, and Mother Teresa, Tutu is also haunted by his own failure to forgive his father before he died. The personal perspective will spark discussion about the bigger issues of morality, politics, and religion. If God is all-powerful, why do we suffer? --Hazel Rochman “Tutu asks so many essential questions in the first two pages of this book-- how to keep faith in people with so much cruelty in view, how to see goodness where others see only injustice and oppression-- that one may be forgiven for counting the pages he has left to answer them. Yet Tutu and his daughter do not disappoint. On page after page, with disarming narrative skill, they tell true stories in which both brutality and hopefulness turn out to be as intimate as they are global. If you are still open to being convinced that goodness changes everything-and that you are a creature of agency who can affect the course of creation-then this book is for you. Read it at least twice before you give it to everyone you know. The “God-pressure” in these pages is palpable, and there is no time to lose.” - Barbara Brown Taylor, author of An Altar in the World “As the authors so clearly and beautifully say in this book, ‘anyone can choose to cultivate compassion.’ Thank you Archbishop Tutu for helping us all come back home to our true nature, which is inherently good and whole, and touch the peace that is always there for us.” - Thich Nhat Hanh, author of The Art of Power and Savor “Archbishop Tutu lives and breathes goodness. Even with the incredible trauma and cruelty he endured in South Africa during apartheid and the many atrocities he has witnessed in his life, he still radiates love and happiness. This wonderful new book, Made for Goodness, that he has written with his daughter shares how he consistently believes in the goodness within all of us. This book is a great gift to the world and will help all of us celebrate our goodness and oneness.” - Sir Richard Branson, founder and chairman of the Virgin Group “I have the highest regard for my good and trusted friend Archbishop Desmond Tutu. I admire him for the wonderful, warm person he is and especially for the human principles he upholds.” - His Holiness the Dalai Lama “I doubt there is anyone on this Earth with a deeper sense of God’s presence and goodness than Archbishop Tutu. To read his forthright advice is to feel oneself embraced by Providence and surrounded by Love. If you are thirsty for spiritual drink, come to the water of this beautiful book.” - Thomas Cahill, author of How the Irish Saved Civilization and The Gifts of the Jews “Desmond Tutu has walked the talk all his adult life. We can all be grateful that, together with his daughter Mpho, he has now shared his secrets for why he has so much hope and joy.” - Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland “Desmond Tutu and his daughter Mpho Tutu have seen more evil than most of us can begin to imagine. . . . That is why their book is shocking: How can they say that all people ‘are fundamentally good,’ that ‘we are all made to inhabit heav