1. Forgiveness for Real This Time.
- Author
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BACKMAN, JOHN
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FORGIVENESS , *CHILDREN of divorced parents , *GUINEA pigs , *LAUGHTER - Abstract
SUF I SUMMER 2020 36 Forgiveness for Real This Time By JOHN BACKMAN SUMMER 2020 SUFI 37 Not everyone raises and shows guinea pigs, and that turns the eccentrics who do into a big raucous family, the kind you'd expect to find at boozy holiday dinners. A lot of people tout forgiveness as the solution to conflicts like this, but a nasty side effect of this fight was the discovery that I had no idea what forgiveness was. More than anything, it led me to the strangest glimpse of Jesus in the Christian gospels: The guru who taught "love your enemies" warned his followers to beware of the "wolves" they would encounter on their travels. [Extracted from the article]
- Published
- 2020