The Poetry of Reconciliation By Jonathan Mitchican When it comes to interpreting Scripture, N.T. Wright famously said, “We must stop giving nineteenth-century answers to sixteenth-century questions and try to give twenty-first-century a... Read More...
Reconciliation: an Anglican Franciscan Perspective By Christopher John, SSF Reconciliation of those at enmity is surely the most important need of the world today. Reconciliation doesn’t mean overcoming conflict. Conflict is a normal part of life — neithe... Read More...
I Pledge Allegiance to the Cross By Clint Wilson Four years ago, countless Americans sat in their homes as their televisions broadcast the results of an intense battle. They prayed, perhaps with sweat on their brows, and anxiously awaited the outcome of a victory that would electrify the w... Read More...
Conflict Resolution: Lessons for a Divided America (2) By Sarah Cornwell This is the second of a two-part series in which I consider what we in the U.S. may be able to learn from certain armed conflicts and post-conflict settings, and what role the Church may pl... Read More...
Conflict Resolution: Lessons for a Divided America (1) By Sarah Cornwell As we think about how best to address our deep divisions in the U.S., I hope to make the case for adopting more conflict resolution terminology and incorporating key findings from the consi... Read More...
Advent, The Four Last Things: Heaven But what if heaven is not primarily a place of peace, but instead a community, created by communal participation in the divine life? Such a conception of heaven allows us to begin to imagine it as a place of communal accountability — a place where all can be welcome only because all are responsible to one another: a place of justice.
Reconciliation, the Gospel in Lent Much of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent book is focused on reconciliation as relationships restored, or the consideration of personal factors that might inhibit a willingness to participate in such ministry.
At the Table of Brotherhood: Racial Reconciliation in the Body of Christ Racial reconciliation can happen around the Communion table and in basement Bible studies, in youth-group devotions and Sunday afternoon potlucks.