L. Gregory Jones: Reconciling leadership from Nickel Mines
Five years after five children were killed and more wounded in a schoolhouse shooting, an Amish community shows how the tradition of forgiveness can enable a new future.
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Soong-Chan Rah: Freeing the captive church
America’s growing diversity is a key not only to church growth and evangelism but also to freeing the church from cultural captivity, says the North Park Theological Seminary professor and author.
Love made me an inventor
Maggy Barankitse survived Burundi's brutal civil war and founded Maison Shalom, an institution dedicated to saving the country's orphans and raising them in God's love.
Curtiss DeYoung: The early church of reconciliation
All of what it means to be a Christian is immersed in the biblical idea of reconciliation, says the professor of reconciliation studies at Bethel University.
Paulus Widjaja: We cannot exist without the other
Reconciliation is more than a peaceful coexistence among various communities; it’s a “pro-existence” -- the understanding that one cannot be sustained without another, says the director of Duta Wacana Christian University’s Center for the Study and Promotion of Peace.
Elyse Gustafson: If it can't be happy, make it beautiful
A review of “Living without Enemies: Being Present in the Midst of Violence,” by Sam Wells and Marcia Owen.
Pie Ntukamazina: Reconciliation is a discipline
If the church does not take part in poverty reduction and ignorance reduction, then people will continue to suffer, says a Burundian Anglican bishop and co-founder of Light University.
Stephen Prothero: Take religious differences seriously
The author of the book “God Is Not One” says the popular notion that all religions are essentially the same is disrespectful and dangerous.
Michael O. Emerson: Demographic revolution and the church
Demographic changes in the United States suggest that an increasing number of churches should move to the biblical model: congregations that are not racial niches but are multiracial and multiethnic.
James Howell: Talking nonviolence in church
Why are peace and safety pitted against one another like a zero-sum game?