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How might continual disciplines and practices of forgiveness lead to true reconciliation in worshiping communities and beyond?
Panelists: L. Gregory Jones, Emmanuel Katongole, Célestin Musekura, and Charlotte vanOyen-Witvliet
Moderator: Satrina Reid
Resources mentioned during this session:
Forgiving As We've Been Forgiven: Community Practices for Making Peace
Embodying Forgiveness: A Theological Analysis
The Journey of Reconciliation: Groaning for a New Creation in Africa
Center for Reconciliation, Duke Divinity School
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com. Their content is licensed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0.
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Explore how Christians in the earliest centuries of Christianity engaged topics related to wealth and poverty in their preaching, public prayers, offerings, celebrations of baptism and the Lord’s Supper, and the shaping of buildings and spaces for Christian worship.
How did early Christians understand their illness and pain in their Greco-Roman context?
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