Waging Reconciliation • Hope for those who

• Hope for those who think a progressive church can't succeed in a conservative culture

with particular attention to how the writings and experiences of earlier Christians can shed light on the difficulties

plus questions for study and reflection

and human dignity

Waging Reconciliation • Hope for those whoOn September 20, 2001, the planned date of the meeting of the Community of Bishops of the Episcopal Church, was radically altered by the events of the previous week. The planned topic was "God's Mission, God's Work in a Global Communion of Difference" which was to focus on reconciliation within the Anglican Communion. World events changed that. The essays of this book are the papers delivered at that meeting which evoked a perspective at once personal