I have found pastor and author Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil’s definition incredibly helpful. She succinctly captured the multifaceted nature of biblical reconciliation: “Reconciliation is an ongoing spiritual process involving forgiveness, repentance and justice that restores broken relationships and systems to reflect God’s original intention for all creation to flourish.”5 In this definition, Dr. McNeil underscored a number of realities that must be engaged for true reconciliation to take place; namely, the personal and public dimensions of it.
