Anne Hope: The Struggle for Freedom

Anne Hope is well known as president of the ecumenical lay community, The Grail, in South Africa, as co-founder of the acclaimed Training for Transformation program for community development, and for her important work in the struggle against apartheid. Less is known about her dramatic and inspiring inner journey. Here, drawing on unique access to Anne’s diaries and prayer journals, Stephanie Kilroe sheds light on this previously hidden life and her struggle for freedom and wholeness in herself, in vocation, and in love.

Stephanie Kilroe is a writer and development worker, serving mostly vulnerable women and children, based in South Africa. She knew Anne for most of her life since first meeting her as a teenager in the early 1960s.