Healing the Wounds of the Heart: How to Really Forgive

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Overview

A Lenten Online Conversation exploring Timothy Keller’s book Forgive: Why Should I and How Can I? Keller, a renowned evangelical thinker, addresses the challenges of forgiveness with depth and grace. This series will provide insight into the power of forgiveness and practicalways to apply it in our lives. Sessions will be held Thursdays in Lent from 6:30–8:00 PM (March 13,20, 27, April 3, 10).

Author

Timothy Keller (1950-2023) was the one of the most influential evangelical thinkers of our time and the long time pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan. A gifted and influential communicator, he also was a prolific writer, and his book The Reason For God reached No. 7 on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller. Although a conservative evangelical notably opposed to LGBTQ inclusion, he rejected culture-war antagonism, was committed to social justice, and was widely admired even by those who disagreed with him for his graciousness and his genuine effort to listen to others.

Today’s Topic

Timothy Keller is critical of what he calls the ‘cancel culture’ and the ‘victim mentality’. Is it true that the effort to raise awareness against sexual abuse, harassment, rape culture, racism and discrimination contradicts Christian teaching on forgiveness? Or is it true that the Christian message of forgiveness empowers perpetrators and perpetuates patriarchy, racism, homophobia and all forms of oppression and injustice?

Speaker

The Rev. Dr. Luigi Gioia is the Theologian in Residence at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York City, and Research Associate at the Von Hügel Institute at the University of Cambridge (UK). He is the author of several books including Say It To God. In Search of Prayer. The Archbishop of Canterbury Lent Book 2018 (Bloomsbury 2017), and The Wisdom of St Benedict. Monastic Spirituality And The Life Of The Church (Canterbury Press 2021). His books have been translated in six languages.

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