SPIRTUAL FOCUS ON BOOKS May 31, 2010 Issue

'WE ARE MADE FOR GOODNESS'

KIM SHIPPEY, SENIOR WRITER

NOBEL LAUREATE ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU, who chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa in the 1990s, will have endeared himself to many Americans who don't really know him, through his March 2010 appearance on Good Morning America (ABC News) with his youngest daughter, Mpho, also an ordained minister.

They chatted informally to anchor Robin Roberts about the new book they have written together, Made for Goodness: And Why This Makes All the Difference, and about their goals in writing it.

Mpho shared her concern to show people through their book that there are ways of living our goodness right where we are. She said, "A smile is a blessing." So are acts of concern, or a simple offer of thanks. "It really doesn't take that much to live into our blessing and make the world better for each person we encounter during our day," she went on, adding that they'd like people who pick up the book to "recognize in themselves their own innate goodness."

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