Empowered to Repair

“Reconciliation and reparations were never supposed to be two opposite things.” The church is called to be a repairer of the breach. Drawing on the prophetic texts of Isaiah and Nehemiah, Brenda Salter McNeil joins Mark to discuss her latest book, Empowered to Repair: Becoming People Who Mend Broken Systems and Heal Our Communities. Together they reflect on the church’s responsibility for social justice; the call to engage politics for the common good; the nature of systemic injustice and systemic change; empowerment and mutual investment in change; and the importance of moving closer to injustice in order to become a “repairer of the breach.”