Has the lion been considering
lying down with the lamb in Washington DC? If so I missed it--but this seems to
be the assumption behind a couple recent commentaries.
Books
Ambassadors of Reconciliation, Volume One
New Testament Reflections on Restorative Justice and Peacemaking
By Ched Myers and Elaine Enns
Ambassadors of Reconciliation, Volume Two
Diverse Christian Practices of Restorative Justice and Peacemaking
There isn't a tidy way to write about forgiveness. It's the whole gospel, for sure. But you've got to deal with the sin that preceded it and the damage that won't go away no matter how much reconciliation follows it. You've got to deal with the stop-start nature of relationships, the silence and paralysis of pain and shame, and the fact that we fail at least as much as we succeed.
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