鈥淢y soul cries out, let the fires of your justice burn,鈥� the congregation sings on this Sunday. I lean over to my wife: 鈥淲hat does that mean?鈥� 鈥淢aybe it means God is passionate about justice,鈥� she whispers with a twinkle in her eye. True enough, but she knows that I think there鈥檚 more to it.....
Why can鈥檛 we just apologize?
A colleague says unkind things about you behind your back and you hear about it. She comes to you and says, 鈥淚鈥檓 sorry if I hurt you.鈥� How does that feel? Now consider the same scenario but this time she says, 鈥淚鈥檓 sorry that I hurt you.鈥� This feels better, doesn鈥檛 it? What a difference....
Restorative justice, restorative knowing, restorative being
To keep me entertained during church when I was young, my parents would give me two small plastic dogs – one black, one white – each with a magnet glued to its feet.聽 When two similar poles of the magnets were put together, the dogs would repel one another.聽 Turned so opposite poles were aligned,....