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Rod Dreher

Wednesday, February 10 2010 9:04 AM

The miracle of forgiveness

After last night's bleak post about man's inhumanity to man, I wanted to counter with a post about something awesome: man's capacity for forgiveness and healing. On my Templeton-Cambridge seminar last summer, my friend and colleague Amy Sullivan presented a project about forgiveness in Rwanda after...

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What do converts want?

Date: 09/16/2008

I blogged earlier this summer about an excellent lecture Terry Mattingly had given to a conference of Orthodox clergy and laity, on the topic "What Do The Converts Want?" It was aimed at an Orthodox audience, but much of it applies to many Catholic converts as well. I've posted the entire text in the extended entry, but I wanted to highlight this part: On one level, many Orthodox converts are ...

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