The fractious church culture to which we've long become accustomed corrodes our witness to Christ, reduced churches to outsized institutional principalities seeking survival, and renders the mandate to love one another to a hollow, empty suggestion. Reconciliation is the latest buzzword commanding fine rhetoric and much spilling of ink, yet the ecclesial bodies bearing Christ's name cannot demonstrate how it is done. They have no authority to preach it to a world starving for it. Time's overdue for a truth and reconciliation commission for the churches combined.
Source: Michael Tessman - Letter to the editor, Sojourners, June 2019
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