162. Rethinking Forgiveness — A Conversation with Matthew Potts
Faith Matters
The Virtue of Confession
Shisekuhuendo: I teach this book is kind of derived from a class that I've taught several times at Harvard and we read novels in that class. There's a final scene where there's a Christian priest, a Catholic priest in Japan who rather than torturing him, the samurai are torturing his flock. And so the priest has to decide what is more important, my moral purity, my sense of my own devotion and purity, or the material lives of these people. He's willing to sacrifice his own moral purity for the sake of these others. It's something analogous to what Bonhoeffer is saying about discerning when to do violence. If we depend upon our
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