Reconciliation is a journey of relational restoration toward wholeness. As the body of Christ, the church plays a major role in this journey. It is a long and difficult journey that cannot be taken without being paired with justice. Reconciliation without justice lacks integrity and does not acknowledge the complexities and history through which an individual’s or group’s sense of identity has become connected to past injustices. Although we have not all experienced a large-scale trauma or suffered the pain of institutional bias against our group’s racial or ethnic heritage, we all know brokenness and division at some level because we live in a broken world. In the process of reconciliation we also must learn to lament. It is not until we mourn brokenness, recognize and validate someone else’s pain and injustice, that true reconciliation can take place.
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Check out additional CCDA resources on Reconciliation:
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Reconciliation Across Social Class -
Reconciliation 2 -
Reconciliation 1
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The Ministry of Reconciliation -
Undivided: Moving Congregations Toward Racial Reconciliation and Justice -
Research-based Racial Reconciliation: How to Map & Strengthen Local Social Infrastructure -
Rooted in Practical Reconciliation -
Reconciliation Rooted in Justice -
The Resilience It Takes to Do Reconciliation with the Disabled Community -
The Missing Nation in Reconciliation -
Immerse | Reconciliation -
Roadmap to Reconciliation: Moving Communities into Unity, Wholeness and Justice -
Using Data For Reconciliation and Redistribution in a Changing America -
Welcoming Justice: God’s Movement Toward Beloved Community (Resources for Reconciliation)
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