An excerpt of the book: The Beloved Community
Racial Reconciliation
Rose Marie Berger, Brian Bolton 9-01-2004
North Carolinians take pride in their "First in Flight" license plates. Now they can claim another firstthe first Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the United States.
Lloyd Wolf 7-01-2001
A remarkable program for black and Jewish teen-agers goes a long way toward busting stereotypes and fostering reconciliation.
Chris Rice 11-01-2000
A straight-shooting white friend once commented that whenever blacks and whites are together it's like there's a "big pile of poop in the middle of the room..."
Ted Parks 7-01-1999
After James Byrd Jr. was brutally murdered by racists in jasper, Texas, the town did not explode. That wasn't an accident, as black and white churches refused to let hate have the final world.
Joyce Hollyday 3-01-1998
room of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission burst open. The
parents of Amy Biehl walk in, surrounded by reporters,
microphones, and cameras.
Joyce Hollyday 1-01-1998
"From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view....This is from God, who...has given us the ministry of reconciliation."— 2 Corinthians 5:16, 18
Jim Wallis 3-01-1997
Something new, real, and potentially very important is happening among several groups of white evangelicals.