IN THIS ISSUE

ARTICLES ON FORGIVENESS

The Heart of Our Preaching...............David H.C. Read.......Inside
To reject hope is to deny the work of  the Holy Spirit....Front Cover

Reconciling Forgiveness and the..........Barbara Nilsen.............4
Unforgivable
Forgiveness embraces both invitation and indictment

To Err is Human; To Forgive...?..........Thomas G. Long.............6
Forgiveness is a gift of grace

Discipleship.  Suffering and the.........Millicent C. Feske.........8
Context of Forgiveness
Forcing reconciliation can perpetuate abuse

A Brother Whom I have Pardoned...........Walter J. Burghardt, S.J..10
We can be instruments of forgiveness in God's hands

William Blake and the Gates of...........Aileen Ward...............12
Paradise
For Blake forgiveness is indeed divine

To Forgive or Not to Forgive.............Mary E. Hunt..............14
Learning to live with unforgiven sins

What is Forgiveness?.....................Donald W. Shriver, Jr.....16
Forgiveness links realism to hope

How Come Jesus Got to Be So Great?.......Katherine Ann Birge.......18
The miracle of forgiveness

Can We Forgive Ourselves?................Barry Ulanov..............19
Reconciliation requires that we believe in the possibility of our 
own renewal

Jewish Laws of Repentance and............Margaret Moers Wenig......20
Forgiveness
The Law reconciles humans to one another and to God

Forgiveness and Judaism..................Emily Faust Korzenik......22
Forgiveness plays a crucial role in biblical stories

The Force of Forgiveness.................Minka Shura Sprague.......23
We have known since Noah that forgiveness is God's will

The Healing Power of Forgiveness.........John R. Watt..............24
God comes running to those who repents

Julian of Norwich and the Theology.......Gillian Leslie, O.D.C.....26
of Forgiveness
Christ the Mother is the source of growth in forgiveness

QUOTATIONS ON FORGIVENESS

In the Hebrew Scriptures [28]
In the New Testament Scriptures [29]
Theologians, Scholars and Philosophers [30]
Saints and Mystics [31]
Poets and Writers [32]
Leaders, Scientists and Psychologists [33]

BOOKS ON FORGIVENESS

The Lectionary: Honoring the Limits of Forgiveness by Judith 
Hoch Wray [34]
The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal [36]
The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt [37]
Christ the Center, Ethics by Dietrich Bonhoeffer [38]

IDEAS FOR PREACHING ON FORGIVENESS 

Forgiveness: The Peace of Christ.........Charles Rice..............39
As We Forgive............................Henry H. Mitchell.........40
The Essence of the Gospel................Roger Lovette.............42
The Difficulty of Forgiveness............Pieter de Jong............44
Forgiveness: Making Invitations..........William R. White..........46
The Looking Glass........................Ginger Grab...............48

 
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