The Hope for Peace & Reconciliation
“Transience, which human beings experience as death, is an enemy at the end of life, whose menacing and violence-inducing presence casts a dark shadow on the entirety of life. Similarly … it exacerbates significantly human evil by nudging human beings into conflict.” The Scandal of Reconciliation Among the great stumbling-blocks of the cross, for Christians and agnostics alike, is its call to reconcile relationships through forgiveness of a genuine enemy, witnessed acutely in Jesus’ cry, “Father, forgive them for they…