It’s not every day that you see a former KKK member apologize for the attrocities he committed decades ago, but here’s proof that God is still in the reconciliation business. I’m a little late to the party on this one, but this is such an incredible story that I thought I’d post on it anyway, just in case anyone missed it.
UrbanFaith.com has a great article about it, and Anthony Bradley did a fine post about it more than a week ago. Breaking news it ain’t, but this is one of those stories that hopefully will be told again and again.
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While it would be very easy to come up with entirely self serving reasons for both the show of repentance and the show of forgiveness, I think this is one thing that needs to be taken a face value.
I’m also somewhat heartened that as I went about the net looking at various iterations of this video the comments I saw were mostly favorable. The cynics and the ones full of hate and bitterness seemed to be in a decided minority (pun intended).
Hallelujah, reconciliation is a beautiful thing.
Amen.
[…] Posted by gkevinbaker ⋅ February 20, 2009 ⋅ Leave a Comment >As Edward Gilbreath has already pointed out, this story has already made the news and has been making its way across […]