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The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World is unavailable, but you can change that!

Can one forget atrocities? Should one forgive abusers? Ought we not hope for the final reconciliation of all the wronged and all wrongdoers alike, even if it means spending eternity with perpetrators of evil? We live in an age when it is generally accepted that past wrongs—genocides, terrorist attacks, personal injustices—should be constantly remembered. But Miroslav Volf here proposes the...

Fortunately for me, it was only Captain G. that I had to love, not “de White folks,” not people who hack others to death, not monsters out to exterminate entire ethnic groups. To triumph fully, evil needs two victories, not one. The first victory happens when an evil deed is perpetrated; the second victory, when evil is returned. After the first victory, evil would die if the second victory did not infuse it with new life. In my own situation, I could do nothing about the first victory of evil, but
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