Audio by artist chris_rice

Chris Rice gives a talk entitled "From Genocide in Rwanda to Social and Church Brokenness in America" at CCDA 2005.

Reconciliation is a core value of CCDA.  But a number of shallow visions and bad ideas resist a more radical vision of God's creation of a new people across the boundaries and loyalties of our communities and world - economics, nation, power, disability, have/have-nots, race, ethnicity, individualism.  How do we radiate and embody a more authentic vision of reconciliation throughout our CCDA ministries?

How do we move from the world’s shallow visions of peace and justice to a deeper journey with God, one that goes from diversity to koinonia? This workshop engages a word-made-flesh vision of reconciliation as a journey in concrete places of brokenness that is richly theological, contextual, and practical. Stories and experiments of hope in both Africa and America are presented.