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Consider Forgiveness

Consider Forgiveness features interviews with leaders and scholars from the Sikh, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, and Christian traditions. This project was filmed in Amritsar, India, at Sharing Wisdom: The Case of Love and Forgiveness, a meeting of the Elijah Interfaith Institute's board of religious leaders. View these clips to learn more about each faith's approach to forgiveness and how it relates to justice, love, compassion, retribution, revenge, and empathy.

Eranos Dialogue

Sharing Wisdom

The Fourth Bi-Annual Meeting of the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders met in Haifa and Galillee, from Oct. 18-22, 2009. The meeting was devoted to the theme "The Future of Religious Leadership". It explored what it means to be a religious leader, in all participating religions, what challenges religious leaders face today and how religious leaders should be trained. In this context, the Fetzer Institute and the Elijah Interfaith Institute filmed religious leaders further exploring the concepts of forgiveness, compassion, love, humility and mindfulness.

Fetzer Writer's Retreat

In April 2010, the Fetzer Institute hosted a group of writers at our private retreat center. Poets, novelists, teachers, musicians, and artists; this engaging group came together to share their views on love, forgiveness, compassion, and the creative spirit.

Nobel Laureates

The Fetzer Institute spent time with the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in the summer of 2008 at the annual Peace Jam gathering in Los Angeles.

Richie Davidson

Grace Lee Boggs

The Fetzer Institute recently hosted a series of dialogues among community thought leaders from across the US and other regions of the world to explore perspectives on roles of Leadership in community movements. The convening questions delved into experiences and philosophies about resilience, inclusivity, individual and community transformation. During the meeting, author and activist Grace Lee Boggs reflected on her many years as a leader in the civil rights movement, and as a community organizer and builder in Detroit.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

In 2008, the Fetzer Institute was proud to welcome Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Kalamazoo, Michigan. Speaking to a crowd at Western Michigan University, Tutu emphasized the transformative power of love and forgiveness and the impulse toward goodness in all of us.

Parker Palmer

In this video collection, Parker J. Palmer, advisor to the Fetzer Institute and founder of the Center for Courage and Renewal, offers insight and wisdom on issues of relationship and individualism, the transforming of suffering, and the rules and practice of inner work.