Amanda* remembers it was lunchtime when her biblical counselor fed her father lines to apologize for sexually abusing her, beginning when she was nine years old. They sat inside a church connected ...

CP: Forgiveness is a big deal for Christians. How did this concept become so screwed up? Where and how did we come to believe that forgiveness had to be given even if the offender was not grieved by ...

A powerful therapeutic intervention is gaining scientific validation: forgiveness. Once described primarily in religious texts and spiritual teachings, the act of forgiving has emerged as a powerful ...