Posts Tagged ‘reconciliation’

Sept 13, 2010 – DeMoines Register. A century-old Des Moines church in the midst of a building restoration served as a place to build relations between Muslims and Christians on Sunday. A service of “Reconciliation and Love” was held at Trinity United Methodist Church, at the southwest corner of Eighth Street and College Avenue in the River Bend neighborhood.

As my heart was being warmed by this generous movie, with its superb performances by Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon, I remembered the second half of this drama, which played out in South Africa in 1997 and 1998. This was an equally important occasion, but much harder to film for Hollywood.

I enjoy almost all competitive sports. I am an avid spectator and a once-upon-a-time participant. Athletics can be good for you. Playing sports is good physical exercise. There are a lot of lessons to learn even if you just watch.

Desmund Tutu recently gave a lecture for The Forgiveness Project – a U.K. based organization doing some incredible work with story telling and forgiveness.

This week I made some presentations on South Africa and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to 8th graders at the nearby Waynesville Middle School. Most of them are heavily involved in the Peacejam Program…

Filmmaker Jeb Stuart and historian Tim Tyson are both preacher’s kids, now in their 50s, who grew up in North Carolina at a time when attempts at racial integration still sparked tensions that could lead to violence and murder.

A new documentary series produced by Helen Whitney will be shown on PBS later this year. The film will cover a wide range of stories that explore forgiveness and reconciliation – in both the personal and political realms. 

Yet in the midst of darkness, there had been a great light. There had been a moment when the dirty, smelly men at the bottom of the war machine had grasped the vision of the Christmas message and pointed the world toward that light. Even though the truce ended, they are still our guides toward a peaceful world.

70 x 7: A Theology of Reconciliation Matthew 18:15-17 is well known in some Christian settings as a text that summarizes a process for handling conflict within the church or between church members.[i] These verses, however, are too often interpreted in isolation. When understood in the context of the entire chapter, we see an unfolding [...]

(This article was originally published on the Clarion-Ledger on 9/23/2009) 9/23/2009 By LaReeca Rucker The Clarion-Ledger Michelle Shrader decided to transition from speech therapist to pastor when she became aware of the class and racial divides in her Florida town. “I was really involved in leadership at an affluent, all-white church,” Shrader said, “and I [...]