Exploring Forgiveness - Friends Journal January 2024 Issue

Finding Peace with Ourselves, Family, and Neighbors

Introduction to our January issue. Martin Kelley

To Err Is Human; To Forgive Is Human Too

How do we seek forgiveness and give forgiveness to others? John Andrew Gallery

A Prayer of Blessing and Forgiveness

Reconciling with my deceased mother. Welling Hall

Finding Peace after Trauma

A seeker finds release from fear and pain in Friends worship. Albert Bellg

Bringing Our Guilt to the Light

Acknowledging the harms we have inflicted. Lindsay-Rose Dunstan

War, Debt, Grief, and Restorative Justice

Reconciliation and forgiveness around the world. Pamela Haines

Forgiveness

Listen for the story / of her life as it enters, / drifts of smoke in still air. M.S. Rooney

Talon

Bobcat looks back / Her tendons steam / Eyes question compulsion to pounce Marjorie Gowdy

Forgiveness

It mists up from the lakes, rivers, and oceans / like Rilke’s “Solitude,” stealing over us softly— Molly Lynde

Forum, January 2024

Letters from our readers. Staff

Life in the Meeting

Uncrossing the Wires

We need to discern where Spirit is calling us now and get rid of anything that is getting in the… Ashley M. Wilcox

January 2024 Books

Quaker Testimony: What We Witness to the World

By Paul Buckley. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 481), 2023. 34 pages. $7.50/paperback or eBook. “So you want to learn more…

Reviewed by Marty Grundy

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