summary

In Reconciliation, Curtiss DeYoung offers a Christ-centered approach to the challenging and ultimately freeing process of reconciliation. Along the way, he describes practical ways to bridge divisions based on ethnicity, gender, culture, class, nationalism, etc. The core of Reconciliation describes what is essential for actually engaging in the process of reconciliation: taking responsibility, seeking forgiveness, repairing the wrong, healing the soul, and creating a new way of relating.

endorsements

• "Curtiss DeYoung deftly takes up the burning question of the church's potential leadership role in race relations and reminds us that meaningful change will cost something. Reconciliation is a provocative but highly readable work about daring to make strangers and enemies begin to view one another as friends and equal members of the body of Christ." -- Cain Hope Felder, Howard University
• "DeYoung's Reconciliation provides a worthy blueprint for a biblical, multiracial, and multicultural response that will contribute significantly to the shalom of the city." -- Eldin Villafane, Center for Urban Ministerial Education, Gordon-Conwell Seminary

publication information

• Published by Judson Press, 1997
• Foreword by James Earl Massey
• Extensive bibliography for further study
• 159 pgs.

about the author

Curtiss Paul DeYoung is an internationally recognized author and speaker on reconciliation. He is currently an associate professor of reconciliation studies at Bethel University in St. Paul, MN, where he also serves as special assistant to the president of reconciliation and community partnerships.