Thursday, 24 March 2011
We visit St Mark the Evangelist in Bodibe; a Chapelry of some plus or minus 60 families. Ngidi refers to an occasion when Desmond Tutu was a deacon and he was referred to as Father Tutu. ‘No’, the priest responded. ‘Mr Tutu is a deacon and a deacon is a glorified server’. I hear more about the apartheid era; of how the white churches had halls but not the black churches; of how there were separate theological colleges for blacks and for whites; that blacks had no vote; Bishop Ambrose Reeves told of how black deacons were given bicycles whilst white priests had cars; the white bishop would sleep in a hotel in town, not in the rectory or township. I guess Trevor Huddleston was one of the big exceptions to this rule.
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