{"id":24748,"date":"2011-02-25T18:31:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T18:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_forgiveness_scholar_opens_up_on_role_of_faith\/"},"modified":"2011-02-25T18:31:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T18:31:16","slug":"rns_forgiveness_scholar_opens_up_on_role_of_faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24748","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Forgiveness scholar opens up on role of faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For more than a quarter of a century, psychologist Robert D. Enright has been a pioneer in the scientific study of forgiveness &#8212; the kind of guy Time magazine once dubbed &#8220;the forgiveness trailblazer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s probed the mental and physical benefits that incest survivors, adult children of alcoholics, cardiac patients and others can enjoy if they choose to show mercy to those who have done them wrong.<\/p>\n<p>His work has taken him to global hotspots, with a schools program of &#8220;forgiveness education&#8221; for Catholic and Protestant children in Northern Ireland, and a new project to promote e-mail dialogue among Jewish, Muslim and Christian children in Israel and Palestine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/article\/2011-02\/forgiveness-scholar-opens-role-faith\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than a quarter of a century, psychologist Robert D. Enright has been a pioneer in the scientific study of forgiveness &#8212; the kind of guy Time magazine once dubbed &#8220;the forgiveness trailblazer.&#8221; He&#8217;s probed the mental and physical<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24748\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,154,177,108,364,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-other-churches","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}