But the thing I think that thrust me possibly into the public consciousness, I had just been elected Bishop of Lesotho. I had gone there to become bishop and I went for a retreat. I don’t know — I mean, I don’t know what happened but it just seemed like God was saying to me, “You’ve got to write a letter to the Prime Minister.” And the letter wrote itself.
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The American Academy of Achievement, to its honourees, its oral-history interviews
Near-verbatim recurring Academy prompt about judgment under pressure.
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