Be the Bridge | How We Begin

“The longer I worked in the church, the more I came to see that it wasn’t a credible witness for racial reconciliation…” (5) Morisson uses the phrase racial reconciliation throughout Be the Bridge. I have heard it a lot, but I haven’t heard a single, cohesive definition.

Racial reconciliation isn’t in the Bible. The word race wasn’t used to describe human beings in Biblical times; it wasn’t until the 16th century that race was used in the way we define it today. The Bible does talk about relationship reconciliation (2 Cor 5:11–21; Col 3:12–14), but that definition doesn’t line up…