Posts by dene

Dear Reconcilers, A few years ago, we did a workshop with the Pasadena Police Department. The Chief at the time was Bernard Melekian, who became a very good friend of this ministry. He said that he told his officers we all have prejudices and he encouraged the officers to take them out and look at…

Dear Reconcilers, A few weeks ago on the nightly news, they did a segment on children seeing their grandparents after a year of being separated because of the pandemic. They were so happy! There were lots of smiles and hugs, as well as verbal exchanges of how much they had been missed. It was the…

Dear Reconciler, I asked our chapter leader and ordained Pastor Willard High to share the good news about Christ’s death and Reconciliation for our Easter letter. Life, Death, Resurrection and Peace The Easter Season reminds us that God loves us so much that he changed the course of nature and interrupted his divine life to…

Dear Reconcilers, In December 2020 The Kansas City Star’s top editor apologized on behalf of the newspaper for having “disenfranchised, ignored and scorned generations of black Kansas citizens.” Mike Fannin, who has worked at the Star since 1997 and served as its top editor since 2008, wrote in a letter to readers titled “The Truth…

Dear Reconciler, In February, we celebrate Lincoln’s birthday and Black History Month.  I want to share an article on “Slavery and the Bible” written by Pastor Neil Earle, who is a writer for ORM, as well as an Adjunct Professor of History at Citrus College in California. In the future we’d like to do a…

Dear Reconcilers, Happy New Year! At a time when a lot of people make their New Year’s resolutions, many are thinking about all of the changes we all went through in 2020. Everyone had to adjust to a different way of doing things. Some of the changes we made will continue on while there are…