Introduction -- Open and closed -- Jürgen Moltmann and open friendship -- James Wesley Silver and the closed society -- Mission Mississippi -- From rallies to meaningful relationships -- Mission Mississippi's theologies of racial reconciliation -- Open friendship and justice -- Justice, Jackson, and the gospel of reconciliation -- Lee Paris and First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi -- Slavery, segregation, and the spirituality of the church -- The spirituality of the closed church -- Reconciliation 101 : opening friendship -- A practice of open friendship -- Prayer breakfasts -- A lived theology of prayer and reconciliation
Summary
Peter Slade examines Mission Mississippi's model of racial reconciliation (which stresses one-on-one, individual friendships among religious people of different races) and considers whether it can effectively address the issue of social justice
