![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It goes against every instinct we have to seek revenge for wrongs or to shame and humiliate people who have acted immorally or unethically. We see it in the humility of the utterance "There but for the grace of God go I." It's refusing to reduce people to the sum of their worst actions. It's the father running to embrace the prodigal son when he's starving, penniless and drenched in shame. Grace is what the Franciscan priest and writer Richard Rohr calls "the 'x' factor." It knits families, friendships and countries back together after betrayal, hurt and even violence.
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