Struggling with Forgiveness: Stories from People and Communities

by David Self

Can forgiveness be a creative way of breaking the cycle of bitterness, revenge, and violence? How do Christ's life, passion, death, and resurrection help us understand that we are forgiven? These first-hand stories reflect the tremendous range of our experience of forgiveness: conflict in families and at work; events that remain private and that shake whole societies, from Canada to Ireland to Africa.

We read of struggles to be forgiven, to forgive another, to forgive oneself; struggles of faith and courage to carry on. The stories are powerful. There is such pain, such richness, such possibility for release and healing.

203 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003