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i beg what i love and leave to forgive me

Yom Kippur is a day to ask for forgiveness so that we may leave our sins behind and begin a new. In that respect, this Clifton poem works as a Yom Kippur poem.

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Emily Bronte on Forgiveness

Jesus’s warning to those who refuse to forgive finds powerful articulation in “Wuthering Heights.”

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O’Connor’s Christianity and Racism

“Artificial Nigger” can be read two ways–either as a story of sin and redemption or as a story of Whites finding unity by scapegoating Blacks. A definitive interpretation may depend on readers’ reactions.

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Forgive 77 Times–and Don’t Stop There

Emily Bronte explores Jesus’s injunction to forgive seventy seven times.

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