Mpho Tutu van Furth

Mpho Andrea Tutu van Furth

Mpho Andrea Tutu van Furth (born 1963) is a South African Anglican Priest author and activist. She is the daughter of Archbishop Desmond and Leah Tutu. She co-wrote two books with her father, and a biography about him with the journalist Allister Sparks. She was ordained in 2003, but the Anglican Church of South Africa will not permit her to work as a priest in the church because she is married to a woman, Marceline van Furth. In 2022, she began preaching in Amsterdam.

Quotes

• Before transformation there must be the belief that transformation is possible, and the willingness to be transformed.
  • https://luminaryquotes.com/quote/compassion-seeks-change/#:~:text=Before%20transformation%20there%20must%20be,Accessed%201%20July%202024.
• If we as a world ever got even a hint of the incredible love with which God loves us, we would be living in such a different world than we do now.
  • Mpho Andrea Tutu van Furth: I’m Here For Love,October 24, 2023,by Tami Simon
• To me, authentic leadership is leadership from the heart; from the center: that one recognizes the core of one’s being and leads from that space.
• If you conceptualize leadership as power over people, Ubuntu doesn’t have a place in that conceptualization. If you conceptualize leadership as power with people, it completely changes the way you operate, even as a leader.
• Forgiveness is not easy; it can seem like an impossible task. According to Mpho, only through walking this fourfold path, we free ourselves from the endless cycle of pain and retribution.
• forgiveness is the biggest help to transition away from the stereotypical patriarchal model that both women and men suffer under.
• Privilege is there is almost nothing about you that I have to know, and yet you know so much about me.
  • https://newfemaleleaders.org/podcasts/mpho-tutu-van-furth/
• we have to search our souls in order to find our own truth, to understand when we have been responsible for perpetuating inequality whether explicitly or complicitly. It is a painful process, but only then can we address it.
• I am working to create a world that is good for girls.
• For girls to flourish our world must be safe, our environment clean, our planet healthy
• For girls to flourish their voices must be heard, their choices honoured, and their right to bodily integrity affirmed.
• When girls flourish the whole world flourishes.
• like every LGBTQIA+ child who has come out of the closet only to be thrown out of the house, I feel bereft. The South African church that was the mother of my faith has disowned me.
  • Mpho Tutu van Furth: A call to equality and inclusiveness,October 26, 2020,The Blog of St Chrysostom's Church, Manchester UK