numbers of atrocities were so great and the legal system so small that courts were formed under trees in local communities as locals sought reconciliation. I think too of the stories that arise when we think of New World slavery, of Jim Crow laws in the South (and less overtly but real in the North), as well as the Great Migration that led to exacerbation of frayed relations between American citizens who were black or white.18 Extreme and newsworthy examples, however, aren’t the only way Jesus chose