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Features: A Definition of Forgiving, Excerpts from the National Conference on Forgiveness, and How to Forgive When You Can't Forget by Rabbi Charles Klein.

ISSUE 2: (Volume 1, Number 2): "Is There a Distinction Between Forgiving and Reconciling?"

Features: Forgiveness and Self-Respect, A Book Review of My First White Friend by Patricia Raybon, and a summary of the National Conference on Forgiveness in Clinical Practice.

ISSUE 3: (Volume 1, Number 3): "If Someone Is Unfair to My Child Can I Forgive the Wrongdoer?"

Features: Listening to the Backlash by Patricia Raybon, a summary of the Cleveland Forgiveness Conference, a Diary of a Personal Journey of Forgiveness by Walter Everett, and a Book Review of From Anger to Forgiveness by Earnie Larsen.

Features: Why Should I Forgive?, A Book Review of The Art of Forgiving by Lewis Smedes, Research News, "I Want to Forgive but I Can't", and Reader's Response.

Features: "Children, Adolescents and Forgiveness," a Book Review of Families and Forgiveness by Dr. Terry Hargrave, Research News from the U.S. and France, Rebuttal of a Wall Street Journal Article, "The Sin of Forgiveness", Reader's Response.

Features: "A Personal Dialogue between Rabbi Leon Klenicki and Father James Loughran, An Interdisciplinary and Interfaith Selection of Response Essays, A Summary Dialogue, and "From Violence to Healing" by Bill Pelke.

Features: "A Critique of Self-Forgiveness," "Self-Forgiveness: A Reflection," "Self-Forgiveness: Dangerous Myth?", "Should We Forgive Ourselves?", and Clinician's Corner.

ISSUE 8: (Volume 2, Number 4): "Community Forgiveness and Restorative Justice: Essays from the Criminal Justice System and the Peace Movement"

Features: "Forgiveness in the Criminal Justice System: Necessary Element or Impossible Dream?", "Prison Release and Forgiveness," "Restorative Justice, Forgiveness, and the Ritual of Pennance," "Forgiveness in the Context of Community and Formal Institutions," "Can We Reconcile Peace with Justice?", "From Just Us to Justice: Some Thoughts on the Possibilities, Limitations, and Challenges of Restorative Justice in Northern Ireland," and "Reader's Response on Self-Forgiveness."

Features: “ Forgiveness for the 21st Century: Teaching Forgiveness with a Just and Merciful Community”, “Forgiveness in the Context of Divorce and Infidelity”, and “Is Forgiveness Invented or Discovered?"

Features: “Forgiveness: A Case Study”, “Forgiveness as an Intervention for Abused Patients”, “A Forgiveness Journey with Abby”, “Forgiveness and Physical Health”, “The Effect of Forgiveness Education in the Personal and Professional Lives of Clergy”, “Forgiveness as a Factor in Marriage and Conflict Resolution”, “Effects of a Forgiveness Educational Intervention with Adult Children of Alcoholics.”

Features a model for teaching community forgiveness and an essay on forgiveness within and among communities and nations.

Features three remarkable conversations about forgiveness: Buck O’Neil discusses his response to discrimination; Patricia Raybon exhorts us to forgive and address the continuing legacy of racism; and Mariah Burton-Nelson talks about her personal experience of forgiving an abusive coach.

Features a discussion of practical issues and difficult concepts in the process of forgiveness. This issue also features Vicki Crompton-Tetter's personal story about the process of forgiving the murderer of her teenage daughter.

Features four thought provoking essays on this challenging question. These essays provide a wide diversity of opinion with philosophical argument, psychological insight, and real-to-life examples.