Recording of the 1st Annual Peter Storey Conversation Now Online
March 23, 2007
Participants in the March 21 event, held in the Divinity School’s Goodson Chapel, also included Rev. Dr. William Barber II, president, NAACP-NC; and Cynthia Brown, commissioner of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
J. Kameron Carter, National Humanities Center fellow for 2006-07 and assistant professor of theology and black church studies, moderated the discussion.
Storey is professor emeritus of Duke Divinity School and former Methodist bishop of South Africa. When he was president of the South African Council of Churches, he worked closely with Archbishop Desmond Tutu and became a leader in the church’s anti-apartheid struggle. He has played key roles in peacemaking structures in South Africa and was appointed by President Nelson Mandela to help select the nation’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.