Arise 2013 web - Justin Welby

reconciliation in society is understood in all the Abrahamic faiths - Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Christianity has the most central theology of reconciliation. The Archbishop stated that “In Christianity you could say that the gospel is reconciliation; it is reconciliation with God, reconciliation with others: ’the walls that separated you have been broken down and you have become one people; that is neither Jew nor Gentile, nor slave or free, nor male nor female.’”

Examples of religious communities in church history are the monasteries in the Middle Ages and the Methodists in the 18 th century. These communities had very clear rules as to how they lived together. The Archbishop observed that we are, “Today seeing a new upsurge of people, particularly under the influence of the Charismatic movement, beginning to meet to pray before they go to work or after they come back, perhaps over a meal.”