In 1997 I observed the work of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), an unprecedented effort in which an entire nation was invited to participate in the Christian practices of offering confession and extending forgiveness. At the insistence of TRC Chair Archbishop Desmond Tutu, reconciliation was held up as the goal, making the process not only a political effort, but also a spiritual endeavor. Alongside political rhetoric about truth-telling, amnesty for perpetrators of apartheid-era crimes, and rebuilding the nation, was parallel theological language about confession, forgiveness, and reconciliation. In 2004 the first public Truth and Reconciliation process ever to take place in the United States was launched. Modeled after South Africa’s effort, the Greensboro Truth and Community Reconciliation Project is revisiting the 1979 Greensboro Massacre, in which five people were killed and ten wounded by members of the Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party. This courageous endeavor offers a model for other communities committed to seeking the truth about our nation’s racial past and to moving toward justice and healing. With South Africa and Greensboro as context, I intend to write a book focused on the spiritually and socially transformative power of truth-telling and reconciliation.