God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times - Softcover

Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu has long been admired throughout the world for the heroism and grace he displayed while encouraging countless South Africans in their struggle for human rights. In God Has A Dream, his most soul-searching book to date, he shares the spiritual message that guided him through these troubled times. Drawing on personal and historical examples, the Archbishop reaches out to readers of all backgrounds, showing how individual and global suffering is, and can be, transformed into joy and redemption.

Echoing the words of Martin Luther King, Tutu writes, ‘God says to you, I have a dream. Please help me to realise it. It is a dream of a world whose ugliness and squalor and poverty, whose war and hostility, greed and harsh competitiveness, alienation and disharmony are changed into their glorious counterparts.’ And, with his characteristic humour, Tutu shows in practical ways how this can be done: by cultivating in ourselves the qualities of love, forgiveness, humility, generosity and courage that we all need in order to change ourselves and our world.

In God Has A Dream, Tutu underlines how important it is that, even as we face the harsh realities of our individual lives and global conditions, we remember the importance of hope and dreams – for it is on hope and dreams that a better future will be built, and on which God’s dream for us will be fulfilled.