Old wounds can bind up your heart and keep you from fully loving - and fully living - in the present. Your pain may come from devastating trauma or unconscious resentment from accumulated everyday grievances. No matter the depth of the hurt, true healing comes from the courage to face the past and begin the process of letting go. These offerings of warmth and wisdom from many different faiths, backgrounds and perspectives will encourage you to begin your own journey toward the wholeness and freedom that comes from true forgiveness. CONTRIBUTORS: Nancy L. Bieber . Rev. Carolyne Call . Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell . Nancy Barrett Chickerneo, PhD . Paul Wesley Chilcote, PhD . William Cleary . Nancy Corcoran, CSJ . Linda Douty . Rabbi Ted Falcon . Marcia Ford . Rev. Dr. Marie M. Fortune . Tamar Frankiel, PhD . Rabbi Edwin Goldberg, DHL . Caren Goldman . Rev. Steven Greenebaum . Judy Greenfeld . Kent Ira Groff . Diana L. Guerrero . Rabbi Karyn D. Kedar . Kay Lindahl . Rabbi David Lyon . Pastor Don Mackenzie . St. Maximos . Ron Miller . Diane M. Millis, PhD . Rev. Timothy J. Mooney . Rev. Dr. John Philip Newell . Linda Novick . Rev. Larry J. Peacock . Gordon Peerman . M. Basil Pennington, OCSO . Jan Phillips . Susan Quinn . Imam Jamal Rahman . Marty Richards, MSW, LCSW . The Rev. Canon C.K. Robertson, PhD . Rev. Nanette Sawyer . Rev. Dr. Donna Schaper . The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori . Aaron Shapiro . Rami Shapiro . Louise Silk . Rev. Susan Sparks . Aaron Spevack, PhD . Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz . Molly and Bernie Srode . Tom Stella . Sohaib N. Sultan . Terry Taylor . Yoland Trevino . Rev. Jane E. Vennard . The Rev. Peter Wallace

About the Author
SkyLight Paths is the publisher of many award-winning personal growth books for people of all faith traditions-and none. The Rev. Canon Marianne Wells Borg is former canon pastor at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland, Oregon, and founding director of The Center for Spiritual Development, an outreach ministry engaging in Christian life in the twenty-first century.

Reviews
The editors of SkyLight Paths have provided us with an invaluable moral service by assembling this serious, sobering, and multidimensional survey of forgiveness as a "journey to freedom, healing, and peace." They have divided the paperback into eight richly developed sections: 1. Understanding Forgiveness 2. Letting Go 3. Reconciliation and Forgiveness in Relationships 4. Forgiveness and the Divine 5. Accepting Forgiveness 6. Love Your Enemies 7. Forgiveness, Justice and Peace 8. Cultivating a Forgiving Heart Among the more than 50 contributors are clergy, spiritual directors, and retreat leaders from a variety of traditions including William Cleary, Kent Ira Groff, Ron Miller, John Philip Newell, Basil Pennington, Jan Phillips, Imam Jamal Rahman, Donna Schaper, Rami Shapiro, Jane Vennard and many others. All the religious and spiritual traditions raise up the value of forgiveness yet it remains a difficult and sometimes impossible practice for many people. This is why we need resources like this one to present many ways into forgiveness. -- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat * Spirituality & Practice *



Book Information
ISBN 9781594735776
Author Editors at SkyLight Paths
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint SkyLight Paths Publishing,US
Publisher Jewish Lights Publishing