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14 Jan

Can we Forgive Our Worst Enemies? Should We? With R.R. Reno

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JL;DR SUMMARY R.R. Reno and Liel Leibovitz explore the complexities of forgiveness in contemporary society, discussing how forgiveness can be reconciled with justice and addressing the pervasive anger in the modern cultural landscape. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Repentance  Forgiveness  Theology  Community  Justice  Hope  Reconciliation  Anger  Jewish Christian Relations  Despair 

Places mentioned

Charleston, South Carolina, United States
"but actually I think it's a powerful way for us to sort of, if you will, be co-creators with God for a future that is released, freed from the bonds of sin and wrongdoing. I want to spend some more time on this balance between, I don't want to call it punishment and forgiveness. I want to call it justice and forgiveness because look, a lot of Jews, especially I think in the aftermath of October 7th are probably listening to this conversation saying, look, this sounds amazing. He would love nothing more than to sign on every dotted line. But that's not what we're seeking right now. We're seeking a sense of justice. It's about justice for Charleston. But this conversation can go beyond that, and it's something that everyone can benefit from. It's how to balance forgiveness with punishment with justice, because that's what we wrestle with all the time."
New York, United States
"I don't know how familiar you are with Andrew Tate. I know there's a lot of discussion, especially in evangelical circles, that Andrew Tate is sort of capturing the young men that the church had somehow let slip through its fingers. I think it's something completely different. I think it's Andrew Tate is promising you the possibility of transcendence without you having to put in an iota of work into self-examination, into improving your ways, contemplating anything. I think it's the same thing, right? Those people who come out and say, hey, look, man, there ought to be peace and justice for everyone. Now you go and apologize for everything that you did and then the world will be right once you have sort of emptied yourself of the world. Of all your sins, which of course I know you have, everything would be okay. And so here we are, it falls to us, to First Things Magazine and its cadre of Jewish and Christian thinkers to begin and address this."

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