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  • 11 Dec 2012
    Terry Waite: beginning with personal reconciliation

    In 1987, while travelling on behalf of the Archbishop of Canterbury to help in negotiating the release of western hostages captured by Hezbollah, Terry Waite was himself taken prisoner. He was held, largely in solitary confinement, for almost five years and was subject to torture and mock executions during the first year of his captivity.

  • 6 Aug 2012
    Forgiveness: optional or mandatory?

    Forgiveness is not proprietary to the church, it is ‘open source’ technology belonging to all humans.

  • 14 Mar 2011
    Newt Gingrich’s comical repentance

    That senior US politician Newt Gingrich tried to be forgiven for his infidelities while using “patriotism” and “overworking” excuses is what leads many to see a usually serious act turning out to have been rather comic, says Martin Marty, reporting on the media response in North America.

  • 26 Jan 2011
    Sudan church leader supports call for forgiveness

    The head of the Sudan Council of Churches has backed a call for southerners to forgive northerners for the deaths and atrocities of the 21-year civil war.

  • 15 Sep 2010
    The Quaker, the pastor, the Pope and the tolerance question

    To tolerate in the sense of acknowledging that different experiences are likely to produce different outcomes, and that without the experience, we should tread the paths of judgement with great care, is wise and charitable, says Jill Segger. This forbearance is perhaps better perceived as humility than as tolerance.

  • 23 Jul 2010
    Forgiveness humanises us, says Archbishop of Canterbury

    Forgiveness is vital to human flourishing, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has told a global gathering of Lutheran Christians.

  • 13 Mar 2010
    Mother will ask son's killer how she can help him

    In a striking example of forgiveness and restorative justice, the mother of a murdered teenager has offered to help his killer to “turn his life around”, two years after her son’s death.

  • 7 Feb 2010
    Did you hear the one about John Terry and the Archbishop?

    I had an interesting exchange on Twitter yesterday with, amongst others, Ruth Gledhill from The Times.

  • 14 Jan 2010
    Pontiff forgives attacker, but Vatican pursues legal case against her

    Pope Benedict XVI has met with and forgiven the mentally disturbed woman who knocked him over at Mass on Christmas Eve. But the Vatican is apparently still intending to pursue its legal action against her.

  • 13 Oct 2009
    Brighton bomber to meet with victim's family in Parliament today

    Parliament will be the venue today for a ground-breaking event on forgiveness, 25 years after the Provisional IRA bombed a Brighton hotel during the Conservative Party conference.