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By Nancy Wiechec
PHOENIX (CNS) — The Rev. Michael Lapsley knows a lot about loss and redemption.
The Anglican priest and missionary to South Africa was critically wounded by a letter bomb while opening his mail in Zimbabwe in 1990. The blast severed both his hands. He lost an eye, his eardrums were shattered and shrapnel was embedded in his chest.
In the trauma he said he felt God’s presence. And with support, he began his journey of healing.
“For the first four months, I was as helpless as a newborn baby. I could do nothing for myself,” he recalled. “But the prayer, the love, the support from people across the world helped me to make my bombing redemptive … to bring life out of death, good out of evil.
“My own story was acknowledged, reverenced, recognized by people across the world. And I realized if I was filled with hatred and bitterness and desire for revenge, that I would be a victim forever.”
The priest said he was attacked because of his dedication to a fully integrated South Africa, where he had been a university chaplain. He had been exiled from the country for his anti-apartheid convictions, but was targeted for speaking out against government sanctioned segregation.
Following his recovery, he returned to post-a
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Books
Maps and Meaning: Levitical Models for Contemporary Care, MN: Fortress Press, 2014, co-authored with Jo Hirschmann—Finalist National Jewish Book Awards 2014: Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice and Modern Jewish Thought and Experience.
Beyond Breaking the Glass: A Spiritual Guide to Your Jewish Wedding (revised edition), New York: CCAR Press, 2012.
Judaism for Two, VT: Jewish Lights, 2005, co-author by Nancy Fuchs Kreimer.
Meeting at the Well. New York: UAHC Press, 2002, co-author by Dan Judson.
Beyond Breaking the Glass: A Spiritual Guide to Your Jewish Wedding. New York: CCAR Press, 2001.
Articles and Book Chapters
“Insights into Moral Injury and Soul Repair from Classical Jewish Texts, in Military Moral Injury and Spiritual Care,” St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2019. Co-authored by Kim Geringer.
“Insights into Moral Injury and Soul Repair from Classical Jewish Texts,” Journal of Pastoral Psychology, 2018, co-authored by Kim Geringer.
“The Ketubah,” in Navigating the Journey: The Essential Guide to the Jewish Life Cycle, NY:CCAR Press, 2017.
“A Reform Understanding of To-eivah, in The Sacred Encounter: Jewish Perspectives on Sexuality, ed. Lisa J. Grushcow, NY: CCAR Press, 2014.
“Jewish Marriage Innovations and Alterations: From Commercial/Legal T