S+L presents Forgiveness: A Time to Love and a Time to Hate. The PBS film provides an intimate look into the spontaneous outpouring of forgiveness: from the Amish families for the 2006 shooting of their children in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania; the struggle of ’60s radicals to cope with the serious consequences of their violent acts […]
Could you forgive someone who killed your child? I suspect most of you would say yes, you would at least try, if only because the alternative would be a lifetime of anger. But would you ever be able to accept that this murderer could avoid punishment, so long as he confessed to his crime? And […]
I admit, I was a little disappointed when Spain beat the Netherlands in yesterday’s World Cup final. That’s mostly because I was cheering for Germany — and Spain defeated them last week! At which point I strapped on my willow-wood clogs and pulled out the miniature windmills that are collecting dust in my desk drawer, […]