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Lapsley, Michael.

Redeeming the past : my journey from freedom fighter to healer / Michael Lapsley with Stephen Karakashian. - Maryknoll, NY : Orbis Books, c2012. - xvi, 256 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The bombing -- Recovery -- Disability: accepting brokenness -- A home-grown faith -- South Africa: torn apart -- A crisis of faith -- Lesotho: living in exile -- Zimbabwe: the struggle is everything -- Returning to South Africa: forging a new identity -- Breaking the chain of history -- Truth, amnesty, and restitution -- Deceptively simple -- Founding the Institute for Healing of Memories -- Cuba -- Rwanda and the genocide -- Australia's stolen generation -- Zimbabwe: the agony continues -- Torture -- Healing memories in the United States -- Pedro, a guerilla fighter for peace -- Looking forward, daring to hope.

ISBN: 9781570759925 (cloth) 1570759928 (cloth) 9781608332274 (hbk.) 1608332276 (hbk.)

Standard No.: 40021274523

LCCN: 2012017293

Subjects--Personal Names:
Lapsley, Michael.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Church of the Province of Southern Africa--Clergy--Biography.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Pain--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Suffering--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Church work.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Africa--Church history--20th century.

LC Class. No.: BX5700.6.Z8 / L378 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 283.092 B