Tag: forgiveness

Steve Edwards revisits an early heartbreak to ask: “How do we find compassion for who we used to be?”

Hafizah Geter contemplates the personal and cultural legacy of violence against Black bodies.

Alice Driver considers what lessons to take from a late uncle’s life.

Men, get ready to be uncomfortable for a while. While forgiveness may come one day, it won’t be soon.

Yom Kippur was always my favorite holiday. Even in nursery school, when all the other kids liked Purim because of the costumes, Hanukkah because of the latkes, and Passover because of the long vacation, I was hooked on Yom Kippur. If holidays were like kids, I once thought when I was still a boy, then […]

Recently, Roy Wenzl profiled a woman named Kerri Rawson for The Wichita Eagle. Rawson’s life was upended a decade ago, when an FBI agent knocked on her door and informed her that the man she’d always known as a loving father was in fact the BTK serial killer. Wenzl’s piece is a compelling and meticulous portrait of a […]

A man attempts to track down his middle school teacher and offer a long-overdue apology: Only by chance was I curious enough about the subject line — ‘Customer Feedback’ — to open the email from a man named Larry Israelson.  You published an item involving retired teacher James Atteberry and the CASA program. Mr. Atteberry […]