Tim Reardon continues our theme of Reconciliation in relation to other people in response to the text of 2 Corinthians 5:14-6:2. Tim sees in this passage a grand vision of reconciliation — one that calls us to love and by love — but also calls us to justice. Reconciliation is a beautiful but difficult concept. It calls us to a wholeness and peace in God, with each other, with all creation, and within ourselves. Yet the term is often abused: too often the focus is on the part of conciliating — calling for an end to anger.

Reconciliation requires attending to justice, to brokenness, and to systems of power and how we are enmeshed in them. And the burden should not be on the powerless.


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