Tag Archive: Forgiveness

Guest Post Up Over at Pulpit2Pew

My friend Frank over at Pulpit2Pew invited me to write a "Guest Post" for his website. He offered a few suggestions and I took him up on one of them. Frank suffered the ...

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Trifle Not – Thoughts from the Edge

We always told our girls, "Give it your best effort." Our hope was to encourage them to work hard in school or on the playing field of whatever sport they chose to play. We could tell ...

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Cultural Captivity – (Not) Seeing Our Own

Thinking through the implications of Peter Rollins' little book, The Orthodox Heretic, left me considering the ways we often miss our own "logs" when looking for others' "specks." There needs to be a greater intersection between our lives and the life of Jesus evidenced in our living more than our speaking.

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When It Is (The) Orthodox to Be a Heretic – Forgiveness

We live by transactions. Buying goods or selling services, we live by transactions. It is the nature of a consumer economy. Too often the economic structures influence our understanding of the way the world works - and to our detriment. I would ...

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Nouwen on Forgiveness

"Forgiving does not mean forgetting. When we forgive a person, the memory of the wound might stay with us for a long time, even throughout our lives. ...

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