Reconciling Practices: Listening, Praying, and Witnessing in the Midst of Division - Paperback

by Jacques B. Hadler Jr. (Editor), Hartley Hobson Wensing (Editor), Robert S. Heaney (Author)

From 2017 to 2020, ten seminarians from five different Anglican seminaries met to discuss the difficult topics that have caused division and conflict in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Representing the Anglican Church in North America, The Episcopal Church, and the Anglican Continuum, these seminarians desired to humanize the conflict by pursuing embodied experiences of disagreement and reconciliation, even while recognizing that resolution in the form of agreement would be virtually impossible. Reconciling Practices recounts their journey in the hope that the experiences of these seminarians might serve as a model for the Anglican Communion. In the words of the Most Rev. Michael Curry, the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, this book shows us "how it is indeed possible to encounter one another not as opposition or other, but as beloved children of God."

Praise for Reconciling Practices
"Intentional reconciliation amidst deep disagreement is hard work. It is also necessary work for all who choose to follow Jesus in his Way of Love. But what does this look like? Outlining the interactions of a cohort of very different students from five seminaries, Reconciling Practices shows how it is indeed possible to encounter one another not as opposition or other, but as beloved children of God." -The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church and Author of Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times