Unclench the Fist
In her memoir *Searching for Sunday*, Rachel Held Evans wrote about returning to church after years away, carrying wounds inflicted by people who claimed to...
This is tradition perspectives on forgiveness, drawing on Colossians 3:13.
In her memoir Searching for Sunday, Rachel Held Evans wrote about returning to church after years away, carrying wounds inflicted by people who claimed to speak for God. She didn't find healing by pretending those wounds didn't exist. She found it by refusing to let bitterness have the final word. Colossians 3:13 invites us to "bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone."…
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