Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism and Christian Quietism

Everyone supports "reconciliation." But too often calls for reconciliation fall short of uprooting injustice, and thus fail to accomplish the work required. Such initiatives usually favor the rich and powerful while depriving the powerless of justice and dignity. The result, according to Allan Boesak and Curtiss DeYoung, is "political pietism." And when Christians refuse to name this situation for what it is, they are practicing a form of "Christian quietism."