Location: Wednesdays, September 4 – 25, 6:00 – 7:00 pm, Community Room
Facilitator: Brian Sigmon

In this four-week class, we will read together and work through The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and our World, by Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu. As chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the wake of apartheid, Desmond Tutu learned much about forgiveness, how hard it is, and how life-giving it can be for individuals and communities. 

This class will not just be a study of the book or of forgiveness, but a journey into forgiveness where we will confront our need to forgive and to be forgiven. We will work through the exercises in the book and walk the fourfold path that Tutu outlines: telling the story, naming the hurt, granting forgiveness, and renewing or releasing the relationship. All participants are encouraged to purchase the book in advance and be prepared to read it and follow its guidelines and prompts over the course of the study. Email bosigmon@gmail.com to sign up.

The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World, by Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu can be purchased from Cokesbury or Amazon.
ISBN: 978-0062203571

About the Facilitator

Dr. Brian Sigmon is CEO and Publisher of Friendship Press, the publishing arm of the National Council of Churches in the U.S. He has a Ph.D. in biblical studies from Marquette University, and has taught classes at Belle Meade and other congregations in Nashville and Milwaukee for the last 15 years.