On the morning of October 10, 2006, a 33-year-old milk truck driver from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, affectionately hugged his two oldest children as they boarded the school bus. He made a brief ...

Popular theology routinely enables powerful men to rehabilitate their public image after their misconduct goes public. This pattern applies especially to men known for their dedication to Jesus. The ...

Miroslav Volf once wrote a book attempting to reclaim forgiveness for a “culture stripped of grace.” Nearly 20 years later, two books are renewing that attempt for a situation Volf likely didn’t ...

The new movie “Exhibiting Forgiveness” depicts the dysfunction of generational trauma—and the freedom that’s on offer. Stories are an advertisement for the virtues we value. And today’s stories are ...

As Botham Jean’s brother makes headlines for “forgiving” Amber Guyger, Real News hosts Jacqueline Luqman and Lisa Snowden-McCray discuss what Christian forgiveness in the face of oppression means.

Every pandemic needs a good stack of self-help books, to keep readers entertained and sane. Fortuitously, this March Jolenta Greenberg and Kristen Meinzer released such a book, based on their popular ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

"Forgive us our trespasses: grant us your peace" is Pope Francis' theme for the World Day of Peace, today, Jan. 1, 2025. His plea is for a year blessed by forgiveness — forgiveness between nations, ...

FORGIVENESS IS EASY to preach, but often difficult to practise. In the face of an atrocious act the Christian ideal can seem to many people inappropriate. Even some Christian believers may see it as a ...

Amid ISIS attacks, faithful response inspires Egyptian society. Twelve seconds of silence is an awkward eternity on television. Amr Adeeb, perhaps the most prominent talk show host in Egypt, leaned ...

THE RELATIVES of Gerard McKinney, one of the 13 people shot dead by the British army on the day in January 1972 known as Bloody Sunday, stand out among the scores of families whose existence was ...

The father of a freshman athlete strangled to death last month in his dorm room at a Kentucky Christian university asked his son's classmates to choose forgiveness because "it's the center of what ...