Tag: forgiveness
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Canada. A country of reconciliation?
My latest column for the Christian Courier. ________________________ What would be an honest answer to the question posed by the title of this column? Some might offer a half-hearted “We are trying?” in reply to that question. Others would say that even such a half-hearted answer gives us too much credit – that the correct…
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thinking prayer with forgiveness
Over the past weeks we have been explored the possibility and reality of forgiveness. Among other things, we talked about the unconditional forgiveness of God – this forgiveness that undergirds our whole spiritual life – that God persists in loving us and seeking us and walking with us even when we continually fail. We talked…
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forgiveness – beyond the therapeutic
The word forgiveness is a difficult word. It’s a word we come across in novels and in biographies – it’s a word we will hear others using – it’s a word we ourselves will use from time to time. But it’s a slippery word. The meaning of the word often changes from one situation to…
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exploring forgiveness – story, paint, and canvas
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forgiveness (and repentance?)
Forgiveness is always a challenging topic to talk about or preach about. At one level forgiveness is a challenging topic because when we talk about forgiveness we are talking about our very personal and sometimes painful experiences. Beyond the personal nature of the topic, forgiveness is also challenging subject because in our culture there is…
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Forgiveness as Letting Go
In the first half of this sermon I have closely followed Anthony Bash’s discussion of forgiveness as letting go in Just Forgiveness. ________________ Just let it go. How many times have you heard those words in your life? How many times have you perhaps spoken those words to someone you know. Just let it go.…
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gospel and the gazette: postsecret
I suspect that many or most of us here this morning have never heard of PostSecret. PostSecret had its beginning in 2005 and was created by a man by the name of Frank Warren. Back in January of 2005, Frank Warren created this project by sending 3,000 self-addressed stamped postcards to people – and he…
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rigorousness vs. leniency
It’s probably fair to say that we Canadians like things made easy. This become particularly obvious when we think of the various technologies ar out disposal: Why get off the couch when you can change the channel with a remote control? Why plant a large garden when you can get your vegetables at Metro? Why…
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Considering Forgiveness…
In January I will be teaching a course in the McGill Faculty of Religious Studies. It is entitled Contemporary Theological Issues, which is to say that the actual content of the course was actually somewhat open-ended. After considering several possible topics, I landed on the topic of forgiveness and reconciliation. In the process of considering and…
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Forgiving Others
A sermon in our continuing series on the Apostles’ Creed. The story about Father Chacour is taken from Jones’ book Embodying Forgiveness. I have followed Jones in some of what follows. Also, I have built upon insights taken from Paul Wadell’ book on friendship – one chapter of which is dedicated to the question of forgiveness.…
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