But for Bernard, forgiveness comes hard. It requires peeling back the layers of a life, tracing the arc of relationships, recasting a narrative over and over to worry some telling detail. Sometimes it ...

Telling a hurting person to forgive can sound less like an invitation to freedom and more like a demand to ignore their pain.

Nothing will corrupt our hearts and our thinking faster than an unforgiving heart. But the reverse is also true: nothing grants freedom, joy, and peace of heart and mind more quickly than the genuine ...

Two in five Americans have fought with a family member about politics, according to a 2024 study by the American Psychiatric Association. One in five have become estranged over controversial issues, ...

In one of my favorite books, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s masterwork “The Scarlet Letter,” the ostracized protagonist Hester Prynne declares to her ex-lover Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale, “Let God punish! Thou ...

In our previous blog, we wrote about Monica’s experience in recovering from past childhood wounds that left her scarred and wounded. Monica knew that if she were to ever be healed from those painful ...

“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:9 As a hospice chaplain, my husband, Philip, hears many heartbreaking, ...

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 ...

IRVINE, CALIFORNIA / ACCESS Newswire / April 14, 2025 / With tax season in full swing, terms like "debt forgiveness" and "IRS settlement" are everywhere, especially in ads promising to erase tax debt ...

When some people think about credit card debt forgiveness, it goes something like this: Your debt is totally erased, and you live happily ever after with no consequences. That would be amazing. But ...