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Can Mercy restore what genocide has destroyed?

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Image via Wikipedia Could you forgive a person who murdered your family? This is the question faced by the subjects of As We Forgive , a documentary about Rosaria and Chantal-two Rwandan women coming face-to-face with the men who slaughtered their families during the 1994 genocide . The subjects of As We Forgive speak for a nation still wracked by the grief of a genocide that killed one in eight Rwandans in 1994.  Overwhelmed by an enormous backlog of court cases, the government has returned over 50,000 thousand genocide perpetrators back to the very communities they helped to destroy. Without the hope of full justice, Rwanda has turned to a new solution:  Reconciliation .  But can it be done? Can survivors truly forgive the killers who destroyed their families? Can the government expect this from its people? And can the church, which failed at moral leadership during the genocide, fit into the process of reconciliation today? Related articles Sudan: Proving a Genocide (campus

Oppose Gay marriage and you're called a coward!

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Image via Wikipedia She Called You a "Coward"! This is the week the gay-marriage movement is trying to break you and me. Pushing forward full-bore in Washington, Maryland , New Jersey , New Hampshire —NOM has never had a week where we've sent out so many action alerts to so many people. This is the week we take up the gauntlet laid down by the First Lady of Maryland, who had the nerve to tell a gay rights group that those who oppose gay marriage are "cowards." (The governor had to go on an apology tour for that remark). Even as they threaten the jobs, the businesses, and the livelihoods of people willing to stand for the great truths of Genesis—even as they bask in the accolades of Hollywood and a complacent media—even as they wallow in the silver coins flung into their campaign chests by billionaire gay-marriage backers—they call you and me "cowards"? Here's how the people of Maryland responded , at a rally you'll never see on Fox News or AB