Vista 36 out now: A story of reconciliation

Over the last ten years, Vista has sought to provide fresh missiological reflection on the crucial issues for mission and theology in Europe today. Yet all of that reflection sits within a broader context: God´s story of cosmic reconciliation in Christ, “and through Him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.” (Col. 1:20)

With the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day and the 70th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, this seemed the perfect moment for an issue of Vista dedicated to Reconciliation in Europe. After my lead article looking at what we can learn from the past to equip us to be agents of reconciliation in the present, Johannes Reimer delves deeper into the dynamics of radical reconciliation and asks: Forgiveness – why not Europe?. Ruth Valerio´s article, Reconciling a Wounded Planet in the Midst of a Pandemic, manages to be both the broadest and the most contextual, and a second article from Johannes Reimer asks if the current health crisis is not a huge opportunity for personal and community reconciliation. The final article is a unique piece of research by Darrell Jackson on European missionaries and their response to Covid19.

“My prayer is…that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.” (John 17:20,21)

Read Vista 36 here