What Exactly Is Racial Reconciliation?

What exactly is racial reconciliation? If you asked ten different people, it’s likely you’d get ten different answers! At a gathering I attended of national multiethnic leaders—pastors, professors, diversity practitioners and leaders of multicultural ministries and denominations—the answer to this question proved quite confusing. For some, reconciliation meant bringing together a multiethnic group of people who are from similar socioeconomic and educational backgrounds.

For others, it meant the pursuit of racial and ethnic diversity but did not include the participation of women in…