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The Fading of Forgiveness: Tracing the disappearance of the thing we need most.

By Filings on Fri, 03/21/25
Christian Living
Forgiveness
Relationships
American Culture
Western Civilization

“It’s no wonder that this culture quickly becomes littered with enormous numbers of broken and now irreparable relationships. Politics itself becomes a new kind of religion, one without any means of acquiring redemption or forgiveness. Rather then seeing some people as right and others as mistaken, they are now regarded as the good and the evil, as true believers or heretics.” - Tim Keller

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Dan Miller

NewA second problem is that…

Sat, 03/22/25

A second problem is that many have found gain (prominence and wealth) from non-forgiveness as well as falsely escalating the damages. Eg “Floyd was murdered.”

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Topics: Forgiveness, Science, Human Nature
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  • What If I Don’t Feel Forgiven? A Pastoral Letter

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