The recent mass shooting in Las Vegas — the deadliest in United States history — shed light on a sad but true reality: Hate is all around us. It is inescapable.
These mechanisms for learning help us build a coherent narrative about the world and ourselves. But they are also the neurological foundations for hate.
FāVS is launching a small fundraising campaign to raise money for its own Coffee Talk Pro Audio System so that for our next Coffee Talk, in October, all guests can hear.
SpokaneFāVS (Spokane Faith & Values) will host its bimonthly Coffee Talk conversation Saturday, Aug. 5 at Saranac Commons (19 W. Main Ave, Spokane). Beginning at 10 a.m. a group of panelists will lead a community discussion about forgiving and forgetting.
Forgiving is something else entirely. I can forgive my bullies in the sense that I understand, more than I ever did or could back then, what might have compelled them to be so cruel to me.
Carla Peperzak was 16 when the German occupation started in her native Holland in the spring of 1940. She was 18 when she first helped a family go into hiding.