"God Is Not a Christian" Published in South Africa, U.S., UK

Biographer John Allen collects Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s most profound, controversial, and historic words in an inspiring anthology of speeches, interviews and sermons, connecting readers with the courageous and moral vision that can change lives around the globe.

Allen writes in his Preface:

If the reasons for Desmond Tutu becoming one of the world’s most prominent advocates of faith-based social justice and religious tolerance can be reduced to a single, succinct statement, it is this: his fierce and uncompromising determination to tell the truth as he sees it…

“Watching him exercise his ministry over the course of thirty-five years, whether in the streets and stadiums of South Africa—rallying people’s morale with stirring rhetoric, channeling anger in creative directions, and defusing violence—or in closed meetings with dictators, Western leaders, or Zionists angry at his identification with the Palestinians, I came to see that it is when he is faced with the toughest, most challenging situations that he is at his best.

“It is when he is called upon to deliver his most unpopular messages—sometimes to his opponents, at other times to his supporters—that he articulates his values, his ideals, and his faith most powerfully and persuasively.