Dr. Stephen Martin

How does a random gathering of individuals of different classes, races, and genders become a people? One answer given in recent political theologies has focused on liturgy. An assembly is formed into a people through liturgy and especially its four movements: gathering, listening, reconciling, and sending. In the case of the church, this is what it means to be “the body of Christ” as a disciplined gathering of bodies, transformed as they learn to share gifts and goods in common.

Video of Desmond Tutu's speech: https://youtu.be/ygpWizpLKSc?t=1232