as we forgive our debtors
I was delighted to hear this week of the commitment of the G8 nations to forgive some $40 billion worth of debt of the eighteen poorest nations in the world.
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I have been privileged to know some good people in my lifetime: people who fight to defend other people’s rights people who say “I forgive you” … and mean it people who seem never to tire of serving...
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We are a product of our memories … I heard someone make that comment a few days ago. It’s true. We do not encounter the present moment with a “clean slate,” but with the blessing and the burden of our...
View Articlefighting terror … a different way
“I realize now how precious life is,” said Anthony Aversano, whose father, Louis, was killed in the World Trade Center. “How I fight the terror in me today is to live my life well.” That quote comes...
View Articleliving witnesses … witnesses to life
From today’s news outlets … By Michael Rubinkam: In Amish village, forgiveness lives Just about anywhere, a deadly school shooting would have brought demands for tighter gun laws and better security,...
View Articlethe healing power of forgiveness
Marie Roberts is the widow of the man who entered the Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, thirteen days ago, taking ten young girls hostage and eventually killing five before taking his own...
View Articlechange of heart
This last Sunday, I shared some of Jeanne Bishop’s story in my sermon entitled, Be the church: forgive often. In April, 1990, Jeanne’s pregnant sister and her sister’s husband were murdered in their...
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