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Malcolm Gladwell: David and Goliath

Socrates in the City

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The Power of Faith

I grew up in a very religious household and community but had kind of wandered away. And I think it's because I did not understand that very point that I was just making, that I didn't understand that faith had... That it carried that kind of authority. There's a chapter in the book on this woman, you mentioned her, whose daughter was murdered by a sexual predator essentially and she'd choose to forgive their daughters. Which is about the most extraordinary and courageous thing I have ever heard of anyone ever saying.

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