Roadmap to Reconciliation 2.0: Moving Communities into Unity, Wholeness and Justice
Ebook
Overview
We can see the injustice and inequality in our lives and in the world. We are ready to rise up. But how, exactly, do we do this? How does one reconcile? What we need is a clear sense of direction.
Based on her extensive consulting experience with churches, colleges and organizations, Rev. Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil has created a roadmap to show us the way. She guides us through the common topics of discussion and past the bumpy social terrain and political boundaries that will arise.
In this revised and expanded edition, McNeil has updated her signature roadmap to incorporate insights from her more recent work. Roadmap to Reconciliation 2.0 includes a new preface and a new chapter on restoration, which address the high costs for people of color who work in reconciliation and their need for continual renewal.
With reflection questions and exercises at the end of each chapter, this book is ideal to read together with your church or organization. If you are ready to take the next step into unity, wholeness and justice, then this is the book for you.
Foreword by Eugene Cho
Preface to the Revised Edition
Introduction: A Prophetic Journey
1. What Is Reconciliation?
2. Landmarks of Reconciliation
3. Shake It Up! The Power of Catalytic Events
4. A Shift in Perspective: The Realization Phase
5. A Group Effort: The Identification Phase
6. Planning for Action: The Preparation Phase
7. Doing Justice: The Activation Phase
8. Repairing Broken Systems Together: The Restoration Cycle
9. Staying the Course: Living Out Holistic Transformation
Conclusion: A Vision of a Flourishing Future
Acknowledgments
Notes
"The journey toward engaging deeper levels of reconciliation is important, but one also fraught with unforeseen land mines. Organizations looking to walk this path are wise to learn from those who have gone before them and to rely on curriculum that will help steer them through these complicated waters. Roadmap to Reconciliation 2.0 is the fruit of over three decades of lived experience. If your group is looking to undertake a journey to more deeply and authentically engage with reconciliation, you should read this book!"
"The church needs to recover the systemic realities of justice, advocacy, and power that biblical reconciliation was always meant to address if we are going to embody true reconciliation and racial justice. If your ministry knows that you should and could do more to live out your commitment to reconciliation and racial justice but is not sure how to take the next step, this book will guide you on that journey. Roadmap to Reconciliation 2.0 will help you plan for and implement a systemic shift toward faithfulness around reconciliation, race, and faith that will bless your ministry and build God’s kingdom!"
"If you liked Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil’s book Roadmap to Reconciliation, you are going to love Roadmap to Reconciliation 2.0! It dives deeper and gives more content into how we pursue this path to reconciliation, while nuancing how the journey is different for people of color and allies who are trying to walk alongside us. This book takes seriously the need for self-care, restoration, and being recharged and refilled by the Spirit to be healthy and have longevity in the ministry of reconciliation. If your church or ministry organization is ready to go deeper in your reconciliation journey, this book is for you!"
"Our church has pursued racial reconciliation and racial justice for several years, and Roadmap to Reconciliation 2.0 has helped us honestly evaluate ourselves, our leadership structure, church culture, discipleship practices, and outreach activities in our neighborhood and city. This book will push your church to repent and reflect on individual and systemic injustices. In short, Roadmap to Reconciliation 2.0 is a model for becoming a long-term reconciling community. I highly recommend it!"
"This book continues to solidify Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil as a practical theologian and a prophetic voice of biblical reconciliation and justice. Her insights and wisdom within this resource are a powerful classroom of unifying principles and concepts. Everything she writes should be read and applied by people of faith that we might be a force of transformation in a broken and divided world."
"I find in . . . Brenda Salter McNeil a rugged commitment to the church and to the centrality of the gospel and the church in the process of reconciliation. . . . Brenda’s book is short and nothing less than a handbook—brief, accessible, illustrated, clear. A handbook that articulates stages in the process of reconciliation, and hence it is as useful for those seeking to embody reconciliation in a local church as it is for those who want to be more publicly active."
"More than ever, our polarized world needs Dr. Brenda’s voice. Her love and respect for people creates a healing place to express our hopes, fears, dreams and confusion. We all want reconciliation—our hearts long for it—but most of us do not know where to start. Brenda patiently and humbly guides our journey toward peace."
"I consider Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil to be one of the great national communicators in the American church. She is the most qualified person I know to write about the topic of race and reconciliation. Her book is extraordinarily timely."
"Deep wrongs need to be made right. All the more, the wrongs we’ve committed against others need to be healed to the degree that we not only respect one another but earnestly desire and labor for one another to flourish to the fullest of all God intends for his creation. That is what Dr. Brenda is teaching me, and that is what she teaches in Roadmap to Reconciliation. Dr. Brenda gives us her life’s work in these pages, and it will be my mission to ensure that her instruction is spread far and wide, even to the most hardhearted and privileged among us. Reconciliation is love as Jesus loves. It’s a foretaste of the kingdom, now and to come."
"The world’s most authentic and inspiring reconciler shows believers how to stop talking about reconciliation—and start being it together. Gripping to read and exciting to receive, Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil’s roadmap on how to reconcile offers a wake-up call and a course map on how to apply biblical principles to coalesce our racially divided and unjust world by building peacemaking communities rightly engaged for Christ. Passionate, equipping and downright brilliant."
Product Details
- Title : Roadmap to Reconciliation 2.0: Moving Communities into Unity, Wholeness and Justice
- Authors:
- McNeil, Brenda Salter
- McNeil, J. Derek
- Cho, Eugene
- Publisher: IVP
- Publication Date: 2020
- ISBN: 9780830848133
Eugene Cho is the founder and former Senior Pastor of Quest Church, an urban, multi-cultural, and multi-generational church in Seattle, Washington. He is also the founder and visionary of One Day's Wages (ODW), a grassroots movement of people, stories, and actions to alleviate extreme global poverty. Eugene is the author of Overrated: Are We More in Love with the Idea of Changing the World Than Actually Changing the World?
J. Derek McNeil is a leader in the field of psychology, focusing his research on the identity development of African-American males, marital and family therapy, and group dynamics. He has worked as a clinician in private practice, a diversity advisor and coordinator, an organizational consultant, and as an administrator. He is currently senior vice president of academics at the Seattle School of Theology and Psychology.
Brenda Salter McNeil is a dynamic speaker, author, and trailblazer with over twenty-five years of experience in the ministry of racial, ethnic, and gender reconciliation. She was featured as one of the fifty most influential women to watch by Christianity Today in 2012 and is an associate professor of reconciliation studies in the School of Theology at Seattle Pacific University. She is also the coauthor of The Heart of Racial Justice and the author of A Credible Witness.