
As We Forgive
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Inspired by the award-winning film of the same name.
If you were told that a murderer was to be released into your neighborhood, how would you feel? But what if it weren't only one, but thousands? Could there be a common roadmap to reconciliation? Could there be a shared future after unthinkable evil?
If forgiveness is possible after the slaughter of nearly a million in a hundred days in Rwanda, then today, more than ever, we owe it to humanity to explore how one country is addressing perceptual, social-psychological, and spiritual dimensions to achieve a more lasting peace. If forgiveness is possible after genocide, then perhaps there is hope for the comparably smaller rifts that plague our relationships, our communities, and our nation.
Based on personal interviews and thorough research, As We Forgive returns to the boundary lines of genocide's wounds and traces the route of reconciliation in the lives of Rwandans--victims, widows, orphans, and perpetrators--whose past and future intersect. We find in these stories how suffering, memory, and identity set up roadblocks to forgiveness, while mediation, truth-telling, restitution, and interdependence create bridges to healing.
As We Forgive explores the pain, the mystery, and the hope through seven compelling stories of those who have made this journey toward reconciliation. The result is a narrative that breathes with humanity and is as haunting as it is hopeful.
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After graduating with a Master's degree in Biblical Studies, Catherine Claire Larson spent seven years writing with Chuck Colson for BreakPoint radio, Christianity Today, and Newsweek online. Today, she writes amidst the clatter and curiosity of six young children.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright
- Contents
- Chronology of events
- Interlude: secrets of the Umuvumu's scars
- Chapter 1: Rosaria's litany
- Chapter 2: ripening
- Chapter 3: luminous mysteries
- Interlude: justice and human flourishing
- Chapter 4: hide and seek
- Chapter 5: Joy's sounds
- Chapter 6: from torn to tapestry
- Interlude: wrestling with forgiveness
- Chapter 7: envy's aftertaste
- Chapter 8: buried in stones
- Chapter 9: the still point
- Interlude: journeying toward reconciliation
- Chapter 10: prey
- Chapter 11: longing for death
- Chapter 12: Seth
- Interlude: facing the darkness
- Chapter 13: snakes in the grass
- Chapter 14: unquenchable
- Chapter 15: the pain bearer
- Interlude: comfort my people
- Chapter 16: bridges
- Chapter 17: you cry, I cry
- Chapter 18: we are all Rwandan
- Interlude: reversing the downward spiral
- Chapter 19: a killer called me friend
- Chapter 20: revenge's mirror
- Chapter 21: wake up and dream
- Postlude: reconciliation as a transfiguration moment
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix 1: resources
- Appendix 2: choices on the way to peace
- Bibliography
- Notes
- About the Publisher
- Share Your Thoughts
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