A View from the Edge: An Autobiography

Leslie Griffiths

Sept 2010 · Bloomsbury Publishing

About this eBook

Leslie Griffiths is one of the outstanding Christians of his generation. His story begins in real poverty in South Wales and leads him, via ordination, to Haiti to work with some of the poorest people on earth. He experienced Liberation Theology before it had been articulated and was the biographer of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the Roman Catholic priest and Liberation Theologian who became Haiti's President. At home, Leslie Griffiths is one of the very few people to have been elected President of the Methodist Conference whilst still a circuit minister. As minister of Wesley's Chapel, Tony Blair appointed him a working peer in the House of Lords. A writer and broadcaster, he was a long-time contributor to Thought for the Day. This is his remarkable story.

About the author

Lord Griffiths of Burry Port is Superintendent Minister of Wesley's Chapel in London and a working peer in the House of Lords. A former President of the Methodist Conference, he writes and broadcasts regularly.

He is the author of Letters Home (Methodist Publishing House, 1995); Touching the Pulse: Worship and Our Diverse World (Stainer & Bell, 1998); A History of Methodism in Haiti (Port-au-Prince, 1991); Voices from the Desert: A Spirituality for Our Times (Canterbury Press, 2002); World without End?: Contours of a Post-terrorism Landscape (Epworth Press, 2007); and The Aristide Factor (Lion Press, 1996), a biography of the Roman Catholic priest who became President of Haiti. He was for 17 years a contributor to Thought for the Day.