Restorative Justice

We are told that we choose whose world we want to live in. We’ll choose wealth or God. We’ll choose violence or God. We’ll choose nationalism or God. We’ll choose racial hierarchy or God. Each case is an example of a different and incompatible operational system. One of those systems, if we live by it, binds us in endless struggle and violence that... See more

Yet grace offers us another version of justice. Grace makes room ... for justice that is restorative, and dedicated to healing the wounds of injustice. But the grace thing is hard work. It takes faith—because it dares us to believe that not only can victims be healed, but so can the victimizers. It is not always easy to believe that love is more po... See more

But grace is also contagious. An act of kindness inspires another act of kindness.... A single act of forgiveness can feel like it heals the world. Grace begets grace. Love rubs off on those who are loved....