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Dr. Peter Storey

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Dr. Peter Storey is former president of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, past president of the South African Council of Churches, and was Methodist Bishop of the Johannesburg/Soweto area for 13 years. A native South African with a 60+ year track record in urban and Justice ministry, Professor Storey founded a network of crisis intervention centers in South Africa in the 1960s and served as chaplain to Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners on Robben Island.

In the 1980s he became a national leader in the church struggle against apartheid and co-led an ecumenical delegation to the United Nations, the U.S. Congress and Europe. Committed to non-violence and reconciliation, Professor Storey founded the Methodist Order of Peacemakers and Gunfree South Africa, he co-chaired the regional Peace Accord, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, appointed by President Nelson Mandela. He presented the Franklin S. Hickman Lectures at Convocation & Pastors’ School at Duke Divinity School in 1987. The Peter Storey Papers document Storey’s leadership.

We discuss what it means for the Local Church in Ministry to God’s world.

Resources

Books:

  1. Storey, Peter. With God in the Crucible: Preaching Costly Discipleship. Abington Press. 2002 
  2. Storey, Peter.  Protest at Midnight: Ministry in a Nations Darkest Hour 
  3. And are We Yet Alive? Revisioning our Wesleyan Heritage in a New Southern Africa (Methodist Publishing House, Cape Town, 2004)  
  4. Listening at Golgotha (Upper Room, 2004).

Articles:

  1. The Fig Tree: South African retired bishop challenges American congregations.              https://www.thefigtree.org/sept05/090105storey-churches.html
  2. Peter Storey papers, 1950-2014. https://archives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/storeyp

Music by - Lucas Britt - “TBD Lucas and Z”