Contemplating Racial Reconciliation

Dear God of Love and Justice, 1 Peter 5:3 calls leaders not to lord power over others but to lead by example — and Martin Luther knew that true leadership begins on our knees. At the baptismal font, you declared every human being a beloved child, stamped with the imago Dei, the image of God. Yet we confess that the church has too often drawn lines where you drew none, building walls in the very house where you tore the curtain in two.…