What is this “reconciliation” to which these men devoted their lives? Reconciliation, as they proclaimed repeatedly, is the message of Christianity. The gospel story is about reconciling people to God and to other people. For example, they created a theology of racial reconciliation by using scriptures such as Ephesians 2:14-15, which says that Christ “has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility … to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.”10
