Category: Ministry of Reconciliation

Tools for Christ’s Multicultural Church

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Do you serve a multicultural congregation or believe that your church should be culturally diverse?  Then, these resources are for you!  As members of Christ’s body, our witness will be dysfunction so long as we remain disconnected.  Join me in spreading the race-less gospel of Jesus Christ, just one of the tools for Christ’s multicultural […]

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The Mark of True Reconciliation

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“For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober judgement, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. 4For as in one body we have many members, and not all the members […]

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Remembering King Nonviolently

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“‘You have heard that it was said, “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.”  But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also. …” ~ Jesus Christ, Matthew 5.38-39, NRSV Today, persons across our nation and around […]

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Christena Cleveland on a Cross- cultural Jesus

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Christena Cleveland, author of Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart, shares what Jesus is about: bridging divides, standing in the gap, crossing cultures.

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Remembering Mr. Nelson Mandela

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Yesterday, we learned of political prisoner, former South African President and international symbol of forgiveness and reconciliation Nelson Mandela’s passing at age 95.  He was affectionately called “Madiba” and his story reminds me of the Old Testament’s Joseph (Genesis 37).  Sentenced to life imprisonment, he was released after twenty- seven years in 1990 at the […]

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