Image taken by me in the Wisconsin countryside near Verona, adapted with filters, 2011

Work, Grace, and the Potential for Release Through Forgiveness

I wrote this in response to a friend who asked me for the Quaker take on forgiveness. This was my reply.

There is no specific “Quaker take” on forgiveness. As with everything else theological (and non-), Quakers are all over the map.

My own is that we come to forgiveness in our own way and in our own time, and we cannot judge those…