Mpho Tutu Biography
Mpho Tutu is an ordained Episcopal Priest and founding Director of the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation. She is the daughter of Desmond Tutu.
Early Life
South African Anglican law on marriage states: “Holy matrimony is the lifelong and exclusive union between one man and one woman.”
Same-sex marriages are not recognized and when it comes to gay clerics, the church is very clear – they must remain celibate. Due to this, she lost her license to practice as a priest.
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She says that she would like her marriage to help progress hat she calls the “very important conversation’” that needs to be had in the church regarding same-sex marriage.
“Not only do we have gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual people of every description sitting in our pews, to be perfectly honest we have all of those people standing in our pulpits too. And yet very often they sit in fear in the pews and they stand in fear in the pulpits because they are not free to fully own who they are and who they love.”
Mpho Tutu Education Background
She has a Master of Divinity Degree from Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, MA.
Mpho Tutu Career
Trustee of Angola University.
Executive Director of Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation.
She was the Director of the Bishop Desmond Tutu Southern African Refugee Scholarship Fund of the Phelps Stokes Fund. That program provided full four-year scholarships to refugees from South Africa and Namibia.
She has worked as a volunteer teaching in and English as a second language (ESL) ministry in Alexandria, VA.
Mpho Tutu Age | Birthday
Mpho Tutu was born in 1963.
Mpho Tutu Family
Parents
She is a daughter to Desmond Tutu and Leah Tutu. She has two children from her previous marriage.
Siblings
Naomi Nontombi Tutu, Theresa Thandeka Tutu, and Trevor Thamsanqa Tutu
Mpho Tutu Partner
In 2016 she got married to Professor Marceline Furth- Furth is a professor in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Vrije University in Amsterdam. In 2006 same-sex marriage was legalized in South Africa.
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Mpho Tutu Net Worth
The award-winning journalist, Mpho Tutu, has an estimated net worth of $1 million to $5 million which she has earned through her successful career as a priest
Mpho Tutu Books
- She wrote the foreword to National Geographic’s book, Geography of Religion.
- She also authored the foreword of Footprints in the Sand: Caregivers of South Africa.
- She co-authored The Book of ‘Forgiving’ together with her father.
- She co-authored ‘Made for Goodness’ with her father
Mpho Tutu Award and Honours
- Women Living Religion Fellowship by the MacMillan Center at Yale University in New Haven.
Mpho Tutu Twitter
Rev Canon Mpho #Tutu “What is the nature of marriage?” #skollwf #LeadingThroughAdversity @SkollWorldForum pic.twitter.com/xlaGM6dl4P
— TutuLegacy (@TutuLegacy) April 14, 2016
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Mpho Tutu Interview
For a very long time, I avoided the call of ordination. I had a very, very full life, and did many, many things. And yet the one consistent thing through all of it has been a very strong sense of my life and work as ministry.
I am the executive director of the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation, and that is a very broad ministry. It offers me a platform to speak out on issues of concern to humanity in many forms. I also serve as a priest in a small township named Joe Slovo.
For many years, people thought my father had written a book on forgiveness – except that he had not written a book on forgiveness. Forgiveness is something of very deep interest to me. I am studying for a Ph.D. on the subject. My father and I decided that, out of our joint interest, we could write together.
He writes from his strong experience – his lived experience of forgiveness, and what it does to the human psyche – and I write from my perspective, of both some academic knowledge and insight but also as one having to walk my own forgiveness journey.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) always saw itself as part of a process rather than an event. The same is true with forgiveness: it is not an event but a process. The TRC really opened the door to a process that we, as South Africans, have a responsibility to carry forward. So, in terms of beginning the process, it was very successful. In terms of seeing it to a conclusion, it was not necessarily as successful.
Before the first TRC hearings, my father took the commissioners on retreat. They learned that you can either be like a vacuum cleaner or a washing machine. A vacuum cleaner sucks up all of the dirt and holds it, until either it explodes or you manage to empty it. A washing machine takes in the dirty laundry and, even as it washes, it rinses and lets the water go immediately. So it was necessary for the commissioners to not only have spiritual counseling, but also psychiatric counseling along the way.
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My father has leaned heavily on his faith, but also his spiritual life- and on his relationship with my mother as well, to carry him through the real tortures.
We love each other, and the first and most important thing in my relationship with my father is that I know my father loves me – sometimes even admires me, and I can say the same of him. My parents and my children have been the greatest influences on my life.
The new South Africa has been founded on forgiveness, yes. It is in our experience that we, as South Africans, are still able to look at each other, and we are still people with very profound hope. I think that if the new South Africa was founded on war or avenging wrongs, we would have lost all hope for peace.
As South Africans, we have a colloquialism: “We will make a plan – whatever the issue is we have to confront, we will make a plan.” That, in part, is a legacy with a different approach.
The TRC was successful in drawing the line under the apartheid regime. That allowed us, as South Africans, to share a common story. Under apartheid, each racial group in South Africa had its own story of what South Africa was. Now we have a common story, and we share a history. It is a painful history, but it is a shared history and a history that we are recognizing that all of us need to heal.
South Africa does remain in a violent place. We are traumatized people. Yet violence is not the whole story of what South Africa is. Tourists come in their millions every year, and most of them go back home and tell the story of the wonderful experience they had.
I think that walking the path of forgiveness has been what has allowed me to stand, especially through the murder of Angela [an employee] in our house.
Growing up under the apartheid regime was tense and scary.
For much of the TRC period, I was not at home. But the one thing I remember from the times I was home during that period was that my mother always insisted on waiting up for my father. If he had gone to a hearing that was at a distance, she would wait for him to come home; and, if he had gone to a meeting that was in reach, she would go with him to support him.
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