CW: Christianity, racial oppression, hate crimes, murder, injustice, child abuse

I read this after listening to him read a section of his book on a podcast.

This is a very heavy Christian theology book and very academic speak, and this is the book I've needed for many years about forgiveness about how it's conflated with forgetting, reconciliation, restoration of relationship and not being angry and grieving.

I used to say that I couldn't forgive or that I was an unforgiving person. That is entirely untrue.

This is the forgiveness understanding and self compassion I've needed for years. This book is helping me so much with the weight of inconceivable harms I experienced growing up and redefining myself. I now see I forgave my abusers a long time ago.

What I didn't do was reconcile, I didn't do was act like everything was OK, and I kept telling the truth and enforced boundaries = none of that means I didn't forgive. And I get to be angry and grieve and that doesn't mean I didn't forgive. This book has been a life changing gift.

This book is written by a BIPOC author for Christians and with a Christian lense and has heavy topics: racial hate crimes, crimes against humanity, atrocities, shootings, murder, atomic bombing, US criminal incarceration system and more.