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.
Reconciliation Blog 
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.
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