Special Episode: Harry Potter through the theme of Forgiveness!
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
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Forgiveness in the Harry Potter Series
Vanessa: I think the model forgiveness that we have is kind of toxic in a lot of cases and causes a lot of harm to people who don't deserve it. The idea for this book came from a conversation I had with a student at Harvard who was in a class I was teaching on unforgiveness. She told me about a woman whose community around her religious community thought that she ought to forgive him Her kids thought she ought to forgiven him right and she thought God wanted her to forgive him And so she felt likeI'm a bad Christian. I'm a bad pastor. We're gonna apply your theories of forgiveness to three moments in the Harry Potter series, but first if you can
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