Reconciling Works

“Love and truth meet in the street, Right Living and Whole Living embrace and kiss!” Psalm 85:10, The Message Peace and blessings to you all as we stand and work together at the intersections! It is sometimes difficult to hear or to find a good word in the midst of justice being deferred or denied. […]

In response to recent questions about why ReconcilingWorks speaks out on matters of race—as well as on other issues, such as immigration, social class, culture, and global LGBT concerns—we point to ReconcilingWorks’ mission statement. We look to our mission as it informs and clarifies our inclusion of issues of racism as they occur alongside and […]

Uncontainable Joy.  For the last year and half, since I transitioned, I can only describe how I feel as having uncontainable joy.  I go about my daily life and am in such amazing awe of the gift that God has given me.  But, it wasn’t easy getting to this point.  My transgender journey began when […]

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Aubrey Thonvold  In case you haven’t heard about GivingTuesday, it’s a nationwide effort to inspire financial generosity toward non-profits at the very beginning of the holiday giving season.  It comes on the coat tails of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday. This year GivingTuesday is on December 2, 2014.  I am the Interim Executive […]