Daily Word on Forgiveness
We produced a symposium on Forgiveness last fall. It was called Forgiveness 360, because the farther I got into it, the more there was to look at. There are a million unique stories about forgiveness,...
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We need to make a more forgiving world. We don’t have to wait until we read the right book, or see the right video. It starts with being more forgiving, starting now. And a good place to start is to...
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In his Broadway play Grace, Craig Wright has a character who asked for forgiveness for not being what God needed her to be, and forgives God for not being what she needed God to be. That hit a chord...
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How can I forgive myself for not being who I wanted to be, could have been, might have been? How can I forgive the ways I disrespected myself, and sabotaged myself? Because if I don’t forgive myself...
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In the context of a spiritual life, confession to a forgiving God means there is a sure source of forgiveness beyond our own capacity to forgive. It is a construct that lies outside of the rational...
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Spirit in the House has found a focus in Forgiveness 360 in a kind of vortex of healing, where the longitude of forgiveness as a healing practice circles the earth in a connecting line to a million...
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While completing the memoir, Coffee Shop God, Thérèse was drawn to the story and voice of her brother’s killer. She questioned – what was his life like before the night he shot Steve? What is his life...
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One night in 2003, Therese Bartholomew woke to the devastating news that her beloved younger brother Steve had been shot and killed. Debilitated by depression, facing bond hearings and trying to keep...
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A film by Clint Eastwood. The climactic line, “We all got it coming” summarizes the dirty way in which Eastwood’s character is trying to make two wrongs come up to a right. (I’d feel bad about tipping...
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