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Article: The power of reconciliation: from the apostle paul to Malcolm X.
- Article from:
- CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health
- Article date:
- June 22, 2007
- Author:
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As a Christian, I embrace a New Testament perspective on reconciliation. I write, teach, and often preach that through Jesus Christ we are reconciled to God and to each other. The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ was a re-creation event that restored us to God's original intention of a united and reconciled human family built on just and healthy relationships. I also fully acknowledge Christianity's history of involvement in colonialism, apartheid, genocide of indigenous peoples, the Holocaust, and the like. Christianity has often exhibited the very opposite of reconciliation throughout history. Even in the twenty-first century the church in the United States ...