Radical Forgiveness

November 25, 2015
Peter Nelson
This week Indiana authorities charged two men with the murder of 28-year-old Amanda Blackburn.  Early on Nov. 10, while Amanda’s husband, Davey (a pastor), was at the gym, intruders entered the Blackburn home and shot Amanda.  She was 12-weeks pregnant. Davey Blackburn has since made the point that he chooses to forgive the killers.  Although he feels deep grief and anger, he said “going down the path of bitterness” would “destroy my soul and it will destroy everybody around me… So today, I choose forgive­ness, and I pray that tomorrow I ...