Rooted in the South African context, Alan Storey is a Gospel storyteller and facilitator of personal and political change. This presentation will focus on an interpretation of Micah’s summary of faith and how Jesus of Nazareth lived it out. Our discussion will be rooted in lessons learned from the struggle for justice in South Africa and how these may be relevant for the world today.

Storey’s commitment to the Jesus way of justice and peace-making was tested early in his life when he faced conscription into the apartheid regime’s military. He chose to be a conscientious objector. He was arrested and faced trial with a six-year prison sentence as the likely outcome. Storey’s trial was abandoned midway, and he became the last conscientious objector to be brought to trial in apartheid South Africa. Storey recently retired from serving at the Central Methodist Mission in Cape Town. As a Methodist minister for 33 years who lived off weekly words, he is now exploring silence and solitude … while writing. He recently wrote the 2025 Andrew Murray Desmond Tutu Prize winning, The bell, banners and blasphemy.