Michael Battle Brings Concept Of ‘Ubuntu’ To Church

Saturday, February 6, 2010

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The Very Rev. Michael Battle, canon theologian of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, will speak at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Fayetteville later this month.

Battle will be the keynote speaker for the upcoming Arkansas Diocesan Convention hosted by St. Paul’s on Feb. 19-20. He also will present a public lecture at 7 p.m. Feb. 20 and lead the church adult forum series at 10 a.m. Feb. 21.

Battle is a close colleague of South African archbishop and Nobel Prize laureate Desmond Tutu. He has helped interpret Tutu’s theology and spirituality in the U.S.

Part of that spirituality is the concept of “Ubuntu: I in You andYou in Me.” Battle published a book ...


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Religion, Pages 10 on 02/06/2010

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