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Forgiving ourselves

It’s popular to say that we need to forgive ourselves, but is that a valid concept? I’d suggest that the desire for ourselves to be forgiven is a valid one, but

The ways that forgiveness is unconditional

Yesterday I suggested that there are elements of forgiveness that are conditional, and there are elements that are unconditional. I suggested that the offended party must unconditionally move toward forgiveness, but forgiveness can

Was Jesus CEO?

This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church” From Backyard Missionary: Was Jesus really the CEO of his followers?… Was Paul the CEO of the early church?… Were there any CEOs in

More Volf on non-retaliation and God’s justice

How does one not retaliate in the middle of brutal violence? How does one embrace non-retalitation when we’re talking about something like genocide rather than only an unkind word? Miroslav Volf, a