Restorative Justice
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Restorative Justice
In 2006 a deranged, armed gunman named Carl Roberts entered a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, and shot ten girls, ranging in age from six to thirteen years old, killing five. Then he turned the gun on himself and killed himself. But what quickly began to steal the headlines was the way the Amish responded. Amish families
... See moreShane Claiborne • The Irresistible Revolution, Updated and Expanded: Living as an Ordinary Radical
When love feels impossible
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Yet I returned to the central values of Christianity—sacrifice, redemption, forgiveness—because I found them so compelling. There is a tension in the Bible between justice and mercy, between the Old Testament and the New Testament. And the New Testament says you can never be good enough: goodness is the thing, and you can never live up to it. The
... See morePaul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Forgiveness appears counterintuitive in today's culture, where the tendency is to cancel rather than forgive, and to harbor resentment instead of offering grace. This prevailing attitude stems from a belief in our own righteous judgment—that we have been wronged, are owed amends, and that those who have wronged us deserve to face consequences.
But,
... See moreNonviolence takes another approach. Practitioners of nonviolence seek to become their truest selves by slowly learning to love all beings, confident that all are kin and that we are called to embody this kinship concretely, especially in the midst of our most difficult and challenging conflicts.... Nonviolence is committed to challenging and... See more