{"id":6187,"date":"2009-11-17T13:57:38","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T13:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2009\/11\/forgiveness-for-groups.html"},"modified":"2009-11-17T13:57:38","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T13:57:38","slug":"forgiveness-for-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/11\/forgiveness-for-groups.html","title":{"rendered":"Forgiveness for Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Forgiveness.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/files\/import\/imgs\/Forgiveness.jpg\" width=\"304\" height=\"229\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/span>Everett Worthington, Jr., a well-known expert on the emotional and psychological dimensions of forgiveness, has given us a book so many need: forgiveness applied to more than just interpersonal dimensions. His new book is called <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0830837019?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jescre-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0830837019\">A Just Forgiveness: Responsible Healing Without Excusing Injustice<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jescre-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0830837019\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He makes this statement about a situation that was provoked for me a few months back when I heard from a pastor-friend about relations breaking down in a church: &#8220;Most people who leave their job in frustration and anger don&#8217;t do so because of unfairness of pay, perks or privileges. They leave because they have unresolved conflict with a co-worker or boss. It just gets to the place where they don&#8217;t feel like going to work and they start looking for a new job. I wanted to help people resolve workplace unhappiness and hurts.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Anyway, here are the topics discussed in this most practicable of books:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Understanding forgiveness through understanding humility, justice, forgiveness and dealing with wrongdoers. He uses a &#8220;REACH&#8221; theory: <b>R<\/b>ecall the hurt, <b>e<\/b>mpathize, <b>a<\/b>ltruistic gift of forgiveness, <b>c<\/b>ommit publicly to forgive in a way that can be observed, and <b>h<\/b>old on to forgiveness.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And living out a just forgiveness in the:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Family<\/div>\n<div>Church<\/div>\n<div>Communities and Society<\/div>\n<div>World<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>What can we do? is his last question.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everett Worthington, Jr., a well-known expert on the emotional and psychological dimensions of forgiveness, has given us a book so many need: forgiveness applied to more than just interpersonal dimensions. His new book is called A Just Forgiveness: Responsible Healing Without Excusing Injustice . 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