This practical handbook-full of wisdom, gentle guidance and helpful spiritual practices-will be a welcome companion on your journey toward freedom and wholeness. Features over fifty contributors from many different faiths, backgrounds and perspectives.

The editors of SkyLight Paths have provided us with an invaluable moral service by assembling this serious, sobering, and multidimensional survey of forgiveness as a "journey to freedom, healing, and peace." They have divided the paperback into eight richly developed sections:

1. Understanding Forgiveness
2. Letting Go
3. Reconciliation and Forgiveness in Relationships
4. Forgiveness and the Divine
5. Accepting Forgiveness
6. Love Your Enemies
7. Forgiveness, Justice and Peace
8. Cultivating a Forgiving Heart

Among the more than 50 contributors are clergy, spiritual directors, and retreat leaders from a variety of traditions including William Cleary, Kent Ira Groff, Ron Miller, John Philip Newell, Basil Pennington, Jan Phillips, Imam Jamal Rahman, Donna Schaper, Rami Shapiro, Jane Vennard and many others.

All the religious and spiritual traditions raise up the value of forgiveness yet it remains a difficult and sometimes impossible practice for many people. This is why we need resources like this one to present many ways into forgiveness.