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5 Easter, Year B - May 3, 2015 Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church, Bay City, TX Brad Sullivan I’m going to talk today about a concept called “Ubuntu”. Ubuntu comes from the Bantu language in southern Africa, and roughly translates as “humanity toward others”. Ubuntu is also a concept of our interconnectedness as people, the basic idea being, “I am because you are.” We are not human beings by ourselves, and we cannot be truly human without others. Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the first black archbishop of Cape Town South Africa, spoke often of the concept of Ubuntu in his and a major voice in ending apartheid there. He preached peace and reconciliation Of Ubunto, he said: Ubuntu is a concept that we have in our Bantu languages at home. Ubuntu is the essence of being a person. It means that we are people through other people. We can’t be fully human alone. We are made for interdependence, we are