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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i beg what i love and leave to forgive me
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Emily Bronte on Forgiveness
Jesus’s warning to those who refuse to forgive finds powerful articulation in “Wuthering Heights.”
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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