May 10, 2021
In the latest episode of Louisiana NOW, Todd
Rossnagel catches up with Rev. Johnathan Richardson, Pastor of
Cornerstone United Methodist Church in New Orleans. Richardson
recently wrote a critical essay in Christian Century magazine
entitled Christian Peacemaking and the Role of Forgiveness. If you
would like to read the article, please visit this
link: https://www.christiancentury.org/article/critical-essay/christian-peacemaking-and-role-forgiveness
Richardson writes this: "Christianity
is a religion rooted in historical claims about Jesus’ life, death,
and resurrection. Therefore, Christian peacemakers cannot deny
history or forget it. Specifically, they cannot forget the history
that sends police “into ghettos armed with the same self-generated
fears that compelled the people who think they are white to flee
the cities and into the Dream,” as Coates writes. This history and
its deepest realities are at the center of Christian peacemaking.
Peace can only come with a true accounting of
history."