Posts Tagged ‘Forgive’

Memoir on Birmingham bombing a study in forgiveness

Friday, September 7th, 2012

This year, my summer reading included Carolyn Maull McKinstry’s memoir, While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement (Tyndale, 2011, 301 pp., with Denise George), which I picked up at the Civil Rights Institute on a recent visit to Birmingham, Ala. I was profoundly moved by her story about Read more

To forgive isn’t divine, it’s deeply human

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

The question is: What is the point of forgiveness? Listening to a programme on the radio about restorative justice a few years ago, I was reduced to sudden and copious tears by an exchange between a grieving mother and her daughter’s imprisoned killer. The mother, though well aware she would never get over the loss Read more