A Legend In His Own Minefield

A Legend In His Own Minefield

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Happy Birthday, Brigitte

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John Mendelssohn
Sep 25, 2010
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When I tell new acquaintances that I have a daughter I adore, but who hasn’t spoken to me in eight and a half years, they are invariably surprised to learn that she is now apparently a committed Christian. How, they wonder, can she have embraced a faith that venerates forgiveness while herself remaining so staunchly unforgiving? What I dislike enormousl…

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