Posts Tagged ‘Forgiveness’

I enjoy almost all competitive sports. I am an avid spectator and a once-upon-a-time participant. Athletics can be good for you. Playing sports is good physical exercise. There are a lot of lessons to learn even if you just watch.

Desmund Tutu recently gave a lecture for The Forgiveness Project – a U.K. based organization doing some incredible work with story telling and forgiveness.

Tom Porter, Co-Executive Director of JustPeace, shares his personal story and how it led to the start of JustPeace.   From a United Methodist minister/trial attorney to a mediator, to a trip to South Africa and beyond, Tom Porter weaves his story into lessons of restorative justice, forgiveness, ubuntu and the importance of telling stories. [...]

A new documentary series produced by Helen Whitney will be shown on PBS later this year. The film will cover a wide range of stories that explore forgiveness and reconciliation – in both the personal and political realms. 

http://www.ep-video.com/ UMPH’s “Living the Good Life Together” video on “Crafting Communities of Forgiveness”, featuring Peter Storey, shares the story of reconciliation within churches affected by apartheid in South Africa and the resulting lessons of forgiveness for us. For order information on this series, go tohttp://www.cokesbury.com

Communion puts reconciliation at the center of worship. This pivotal act distills as a rich exemplar the importance of the daily informal practice of going to the person wronged to admit mistake.

Study on Forgiveness by Delia Halverson

Members of Hobson United Methodist Church in Nashville, Tenn., burn strips of paper on which they’ve written things they need to be forgiven for during an act of “repentance, forgiveness and renewal.” Forgiveness is a tenet of faith and a popular sermon topic, but the practice of daily reconciliation — of cleansing the hatred from [...]

Article about Rev. Walt Everett and his story of forgiving his son’s murderer. Originally printed in Rolling Stone in 2004.