{"id":2652,"date":"2011-10-28T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T10:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/10\/finding-forgiveness-in-africa.html"},"modified":"2011-10-28T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T10:19:00","slug":"finding-forgiveness-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/10\/finding-forgiveness-in-africa.html","title":{"rendered":"Finding Forgiveness in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"text\" style=\"background-color: white;font-size: 10pt;font: normal normal normal 11pt\/normal Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;line-height: 15pt;padding-bottom: 14px;text-align: left\">Ever since I read, as a child, about Corrie ten Boom forgiving a Nazi guard in\u00a0<span class=\"citation\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><a class=\"citation decorated-link\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Hiding_Place_%28biography%29\" style=\"color: black\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Hiding Place<\/a><\/span>, I\u2019ve been a sucker for forgiveness stories\u2014especially in the movies. The Green Mile, The Straight Story, The Spitfire Grill, The Mission, and even\u00a0<a class=\"text decorated-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jBETucoL6lg\" style=\"color: black;font-size: 10pt;font: normal normal normal 11pt\/normal Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;line-height: 15pt;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 0px;padding-bottom: 14px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the end of\u00a0<span class=\"citation\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Spider-Man 3<\/span><\/a>, where Peter\/Spidey forgives the Sandman\/Flint Marko for killing his beloved Uncle Ben.<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\" style=\"background-color: white;font-size: 10pt;font: normal normal normal 11pt\/normal Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;line-height: 15pt;padding-bottom: 14px;text-align: left\">But the most powerful stories of forgiveness are the real ones as often depicted in documentaries. Martin Doblmeier\u2019s\u00a0<span class=\"citation\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><a class=\"citation decorated-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/movies\/interviews\/2008\/martindoblmeier.html\" style=\"color: black\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Power of Forgiveness<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and Laura Waters Hinson\u2019s\u00a0<span class=\"citation\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><a class=\"citation decorated-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/movies\/interviews\/2008\/laurawatershinson.html\" style=\"color: black\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">As We Forgive<\/a><\/span>\u00a0are both near the top of the list\u2014especially the latter, which explores reconciliation in Rwanda in the wake of the 1994 genocide. I was in Rwanda two years ago and saw\u00a0<a class=\"text decorated-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2009\/june\/26.28.html\" style=\"color: black;font-size: 10pt;font: normal normal normal 11pt\/normal Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;line-height: 15pt;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 0px;padding-bottom: 14px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">some of these stories<\/a>\u00a0myself.<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\" style=\"background-color: white;font-size: 10pt;font: normal normal normal 11pt\/normal Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;line-height: 15pt;padding-bottom: 14px;text-align: left\">Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/movies\/commentaries\/2011\/findingforgiveness.html#.TqrDeFAeidY.facebook\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I read, as a child, about Corrie ten Boom forgiving a Nazi guard in\u00a0The Hiding Place, I\u2019ve been a sucker for forgiveness stories\u2014especially in the movies. 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