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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.
Pastor-scholar Andrew Wilkes shares how his worshiping community, Double Love Experience Church, prayed and sang the psalms during the troubling times of 2020. The psalms gave them language and support for praise and lament, and Wilkes asserts that lament is the evidence of faith because we are bringing our troubles to God.
Author and pastor-scholar David Taylor shares how he came to appreciate the psalms and how he encourages people to bring their full, unedited selves to God in prayer and experience a richer and more honest life of faith.
Old Testament scholar Nancy deClaissé-Walford has spent her career studying the ordering of the Psalter. Most of the psalms, she says, are not tied to a particular situation, allowing us to sing and pray them honestly in our own contexts.
Pastor-scholar Andrew Wilkes shares how his worshiping community, Double Love Experience Church, prayed and sang the psalms during the troubling times of 2020. The psalms gave them language and support for praise and lament, and Wilkes asserts that lament is the evidence of faith because we are bringing our troubles to God.
Author and pastor-scholar David Taylor shares how he came to appreciate the psalms and how he encourages people to bring their full, unedited selves to God in prayer and experience a richer and more honest life of faith.
Old Testament scholar Nancy deClaissé-Walford has spent her career studying the ordering of the Psalter. Most of the psalms, she says, are not tied to a particular situation, allowing us to sing and pray them honestly in our own contexts.
A Psalm Talk by Jared E. Alcántara recorded at the 2026 Psalms 150 conference, with a visual prayer and embodied response from artist Dea Jenkins.
