reconciliation
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008From Little Things Big Things Grow
If you thought socially conscious music in the mainstream was a thing of the past, turn your ears to what Australia is listening to. A song about justice and reconciliation in Australia was the highest new entry in the charts two weeks ago - starting out at #2 on the […]
A Dialogue Too Friendly for Focus on the Family?
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008Brian McLaren responds to criticism from Focus on the Family for replying to a request by 138 Muslim scholars for civil dialogue and increased understanding between Christians and Muslims. Specifically, a January 3 email from Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink called “Evangelical Leaders Pledge Common Cause with Islam,” took aim at the National Association […]
Palm Sunday Miracle
Friday, April 6th, 2007The following testimony took place on Sunday — Palm Sunday — at the Encounter. It’s posted anonymously, but rest assured, it’s legit. I can vouch for every word of it.
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I want to tell you a story about reconciliation.
Two years ago, I was falsely accused of horrible things by someone I hadn’t seen in […]
The Ministry of Reconciliation: A Tribute to Oscar Romero
Monday, February 19th, 2007Much love and appreciation to Rev. Dr. Alfred Cockfield and his wife Linette Savory-Cockfield of God’s Battalion of Prayer Church in Flatbush, Brooklyn, for inviting me to preach at their Black History Month “Celebration of Latin America” service last night. Congregational members from Cuba, Costa Rica, and Panama helped us glimpse the flavor of […]
How can we be friends?
Friday, February 2nd, 2007A must read: Reconciliation Blues by Edward Gilbreath, the first African American staff reporter at Christianity Today. His insights about the state of race relations within evangelicalism are excerpted here. One story he tells reminds me of my own experience at a lilly-white evangelical conference, as told in “Losing Races: A Dream Deferred” […]