Peter Storey Quotes

But I think St. Peter and the twelve Apostles would have been rather surprised at the concept that Christ had been scourged and beaten by soldiers, cursed and crowned with thorns and subjected to unutterable contempt and finally nailed to the Cross and left to bleed to death in order that we might all become gentlemen.

Salvation The helmet of salvation should include liberation for others. We resist the powers not just by leading people to individually renounce them but by announcing salvation that extends to the larger social, economic, and political spheres of life that imprison people. Let me emphasize this point with a poignant observation from South African professor and bishop Peter Storey, who perceptively wrote, American preachers have a task more difficult, perhaps, than those faced by us under South Africa’s apartheid, or Christians under Communism. We had obvious evils to engage; you have to unwrap your culture from years of red, white and blue myth…. You have to help good people see how they have let their institutions do their sinning for them.[13] In the announcement of the gospel, we are called to apply its power beyond privatized experiences of faith. While holding on to the individual fruits of salvation, the larger social and cosmic realities must be proclaimed and worked for as well. Christ’s death does not just apply to “me.” It must apply to “us.

When we asked him why he was so dedicated to reconciliation and to being willing to make concessions to his opponents, he did not hesitate to say that it had all been due to the influence and witness of the Christian churches. This was echoed by Tokyo Sexwale, the first Premier of the leading industrial province of Gauteng, when he too came to greet our synod as it was meeting in his province. Clearly the Church had made a contribution to what was happening in our land, even though its witness and ministry had been something of a mixed bag. Presumably without that influence things might have turned out a little differently. It could also be that at a very difficult time in our struggle, when most of our leaders were in jail or in exile or proscribed in some way or other, some of the leaders in the churches were thrust into the forefront of the struggle and had thereby given the churches a particular kind of credibility—people like Allan Boesak, formerly leader of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church, Frank Chikane, former general secretary of the South African Council of Churches (SACC), Peter Storey, former head of the Methodist Church, Beyers Naudé, the most prominent Afrikaner church dissident and also a general secretary of the SACC, Denis Hurley, formerly Roman Catholic Archbishop of Durban, and leaders of other faith communities who were there where the people were hurting. Thus when they spoke about forgiveness and reconciliation they had won their spurs and would be listened to with respect.

Britain is one of only two countries in the world (along with South Korea) not to require a second staircase in any buildings. In the United States and Ireland, one must be provided for all blocks four storeys or higher. In Canada it applies to any blocks of flats with two storeys or more. We are almost alone in the world in believing our tall buildings do not need a second stair. This has remained so even after Grenfell.

He had used the word 'purloin' with Storey, who had grunted amusement. "Anachronistic and elegant," he'd said. "I think when everybody is dead you're stuck with 'scavenge'".