Showing posts with label forgiveness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label forgiveness. Show all posts
Thursday, March 5, 2020

More on Forgiveness and Clergy Abuse Situation: Kaya Oakes on Need for New Understandings

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finally starting to directly reckon with how white evangelicalism taught 'forgiveness:' what it is, who it serves, how it's o...
Monday, February 10, 2020

The Holocaust and Christian Theologies of Sin and Forgiveness: Imperative Need for Christians to Listen to Jews

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Elizabeth Johnson, The Quest for the Living God (London: Bloomsbury, 2007) Ruth Krall's recent sounding of various ecclesial resp...
Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Ruth Krall, "A Sin or a Crime?"

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David Stoltzfus Smucker (age 75) wheeled into court in Lancaster, PA,  Pittsburg Post-Gazette, 24 Jan. 2020 I'm happy to share tod...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Ruth Krall, "Bearing Witness, Part Two — Speaking Truthfully" (2)

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Vincent van Gogh, "The Good Samaritan," original in the Kroller-Muller Museum in Otterlo, The Netherlands, uploaded to Wikimedia...
Monday, January 13, 2020

Ruth Krall, "Bearing Witness, Part Two — Speaking Truthfully"

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Vincent van Gogh, "The Good Samaritan," original in the Kroller-Muller Museum in Otterlo, The Netherlands, uploaded to Wikimedi...
Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Ruth Krall, "Bearing Witness: Part One — Paying Attention" (2)

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Vincent van Gogh, "The Good Samaritan," original in the Kroller-Muller Museum in Otterlo, The Netherlands,  uploaded to Wikimedi...
Saturday, January 4, 2020

Ruth Krall, "Bearing Witness: Part One — Paying Attention"

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 Vincent van Gogh, "The Good Samaritan," original in the Kroller-Muller Museum in Otterlo, The Netherlands, uploaded to Wikimed...
Saturday, December 21, 2019

Ruth Krall, "Bearing Witness: The First Step in Reconciliation" (2)

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Vincent van Gogh, "The Good Samaritan," original in the Kroller-Muller Museum in Otterlo, The Netherlands, uploaded to Wikimedia...
Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Ruth Krall, "Bearing Witness: The First Step in Reconciliation"

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Vincent van Gogh, "The Good Samaritan," original in the Kroller-Muller Museum in Otterlo, The Netherlands, uploaded to Wikimedi...
Monday, January 29, 2018

Frank Schaeffer on Why White Evangelicals Love Trump: "The Context Is American Racism" — Implications for White Catholic "Pro-Life" Voters

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This is the kind of testimony that white Catholics who claim to be motivated solely by opposition to abortion as they cast their votes d...
Friday, January 12, 2018

Standing Ovation at Highpoint Church, Memphis, for Pastor Who Sexually Assaulted 17-Year-Old Girl: Churches Still Not Intending to Get It

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Church: When the prevailing word is boys will be boys, then we are saying girls will be garbage. And the church needs to not dismiss ...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

SNAP on Premature Forgiveness and Harm It Does to Abuse Survivors: The Need for a Moratorium on Forgiveness Talk in Clergy Abuse Cases

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Today, I'd like to share with you a statement from Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP), which appeared a few days...
Sunday, June 21, 2015

Quote for Today: "The Sort of Bland Saluting of Forgiveness with Nothing Else Attached Is Empty"

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The sort of bland saluting of forgiveness with nothing else attached is empty. — Ta-Nehisi Coates (@tanehisicoates) June 21, 2015 ...
Saturday, June 20, 2015

"I Forgive You": Grieving Family Members of Charleston Church Shooting Speak to Dylann Storm Roof

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"I forgive you," Nadine Collier said through tears to the accused killer of her mother, Ethel Lance. "You took something v...
Monday, August 18, 2008

There's Forgiveness, and Then There's Forgiveness

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This is not a particularly good time for me. Not complaining. Just explaining. Explaining why I’m slow to blog, and why what I have to say...