Several years ago, we read C.S. Lewis’

I was at our Staff Conference when I actually saw her. I had hoped she’d be there because two years earlier I had harmed our relationship with something I said publicly. Although I had apologized via email (we lived countries apart) and she’d forg...

When I was a child, forgiveness seemed simple. When my siblings and I had a fight, my parents instructed the offending child to apologize to the victim, the offended child to immediately forgive, and then to reconcile by “hugging it out.” (When th...

“Why should I forgive the Russians?” My Ukrainian friend stared at me from across the table, her eyes reflecting her confusion. She knew of the Bible’s command to forgive, but how could God expect her to pardon those who had forced her to flee her...