Africa Matters

I am privileged to serve with Chris Rice (left) as co-director of the Center for Reconciliation at Duke Divinity School. Rooted in a Christian vision of God’s mission, the CFR is  a center whose mission is to inspire, form, and support leaders, communities and congregations to think, feel, and live as ambassadors of reconciliation in a broken world.  Visit the Center for Reconciliation site for full details on the mission, vision, and resources of the Center for Reconciliation, along with upcoming events and ways to be involved.

What is particularly exciting about the CFR is that it manages to weave a rich interplay across deep divides — theologians and practitioners; intellectual inquiry and everyday life; racial, ethnic, and ecclesial divisions; justice and reconciliation; memory and forgiveness; conversion and social transformation; power and the margins; the seminary, the sanctuary, and the streets.

Great Lakes Initiative (GLI)

A program of the Center for Reconciliation, the African Great Lakes Initiative is a community of restless Christian leaders seeking to embody God’s vision of reconciliation and to inspire, form and support Christian leaders in the Great Lakes Region of East of Africa through community, catalytic leadership and biblically inspired content & resources.

The GLI started in 2006, holding its inaugural gathering of 45 African and U.S. leaders in Kampala, Uganda.  A second gathering was ventured in Kampala in 2008.

The latest gathering was held in January, 2009 in Bujumbura, Burundi.  The largest to date, over 100 African leaders participated from Christian-based organizations and institutions involved in ministries of reconciliation.

The next upcoming gathering will take place in January 2010, returning to Bujumbura, Burundi.

For more information on this exciting work, visit the GLI site.