Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation

by LaTasha Morrison

God is inviting all of us to be active participants in racial reconciliation, to show the world that racial unity is possible through Christ.

“Love,” I said, “brings freedom, and slaves didn’t have freedom or choice. Family doesn’t leave family in bondage.”

Truth has always been evaluated from various perspectives, depending on whether one is the teller or the listener, the winner or the loser, the dominant party or the marginalized. When the teller has an agenda, especially if the teller holds power, lies often are told to distort the truth. Eventually, those lies permeate our culture, our very way of thinking.

Paul emphasized that unity can be found in diversity.

In the love of the family of God, we must become color brave, color caring, color honoring, and not color blind. We have to recognize the image of God in one another. We have to love despite, and even because of, our differences.

Acknowledgment should lead us toward lament, toward seeking mercy, toward a collective conviction that we can and must do better. Willful ignorance of the facts, willful bias and prejudice—these things keep us from the awareness that leads to full acknowledgment and lament. They keep us from moving into the hard work of racial reconciliation.