Participants in the Northeast Asia Reconciliation Initiative forum, Japan 2025
The Northeast Asia Reconciliation Initiative (NARI) is a community of Christian leaders from Northeast Asia and the U.S. seeking to embody God’s vision of reconciliation. The Initiative inspires, forms, and supports church leaders, educators and practitioners from seven countries.
The journey of reconciliation from Genesis to Revelation reaches toward the hope of God’s new creation. NARI offers an annual forum that applies the Word Made Flesh method, which is designed to explore the heart of the ministry and movement of reconciliation and peace in three critical dimensions: theological (“the Word”), contextual (“became flesh”), and practical (“and dwelt among us”).
For more information about NARI's annual Reconciliation Forum, contact nariforum4all@gmail.com.
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"NARI has become a sacred invitation for Northeast Asian people to share their journeys as they wrestle with and imagine reconciliation within their own contexts. Among its participants—including classmates from Duke Divinity—are companions who bear witness to both the challenges we face and the ways God moves in our lives, across denominational lines and personal histories. Their presence has been deeply significant for me, helping me integrate my academic work with my own story. As I study the intersection of theology and trauma, NARI keeps me rooted in my broader Asian postcolonial context, and attentive to the realities of human experience."
