A View from the Edge by Leslie Griffiths
From poverty to a peerage, with a cast-list including Neil Kinnock, Michael Howard, PapaDoc Duvalier, Donald Soper, John Humphrys, Len Murray, and Maya Angelou...Leslie Griffiths' story begins in real poverty in South Wales. Thanks to his outstanding intellect and a grammar school education, he became the youngest ever staff member at the University of Wales, before the call to ordained ministry led him, via Cambridge, to Haiti to work with some of the poorest people on earth. At the height of the Duvalier dynasty's power, he experienced Liberation Theology before it had been articulated and became the biographer of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the Roman Catholic priest and Liberation Theologian who became Haiti's President. In England, Leslie Griffiths is one of the very people to have been elected President of the Methodist Conference whilst still a circuit (parish) minister. Tony Blair appointed him a working peer in the House of Lords. Principled and outspoken, he has a high media profile, is an impassioned ambassador for multiculturalism and does not shrink from controversy - nor from public criticism of contemporary culture and politics.
Lord Griffiths of Burry Port is Superintendent Minister of Wesley's Chapel in London and a working peer in the House of Lords. A former President of the Methodist Conference, he writes and broadcasts regularly. He is the author of Letters Home (Methodist Publishing House, 1995); Touching the Pulse: Worship and Our Diverse World (Stainer & Bell, 1998); A HISTORY OF METHODISM IN HAITI (Port-au-Prince, 1991); Voices from the Desert: A Spirituality for Our Times (Canterbury Press, 2002); World without End?: Contours of a Post-terrorism Landscape (Epworth Press, 2007); and The Aristide Factor (Lion Press, 1996), a biography of the Roman Catholic priest who became President of Haiti. He was for 17 years a contributor to Thought for the Day.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781441194299 |
| ISBN 10 | 1441194290 |
| Title | A View from the Edge |
| Author | Leslie Griffiths |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Continuum Publishing Corporation |
| Year published | 2010-12-02 |
| Number of pages | 302 |
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