It has happened once again. People are dead and injured in a mass shooting. This is a scenario that we see and hear about way too often. An individual lashes out, taking as many lives as possible with a senseless, brutal act of violence. Individuals who are simply going about their lives find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.
As the Rev. Allan Boesak rose to give his powerful testimony of his life under the apartheid regime in South Africa and the genesis of the Belhar Confession there, a hushed reverence fell on Montreat Conference Center’s Convocation Hall.
The Rev. Allan Boesak — an influential anti-Apartheid activist and a principal author of the Belhar Confession — will be one of several church leaders, historians, and theologians scheduled to speak at a special event at Montreat Conference Center on Oct. 17.
The Rev. Allan Boesak — an influential anti-Apartheid activist and a principal author of the Belhar Confession — will be one of several church leaders, historians, and theologians scheduled to speak at a special event at Montreat Conference Center on Oct. 17.
“We believe deeply that [the Confession of] Belhar is a word from God to our church at this time,” the Rev. Clifton Kirkpatrick told the Committee on the Office of the General Assembly (COGA) and the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board in twin presentations here Feb. 6.