Name: Forgiveness: An Alternative Account. Talk with Rev. Matthew Ichihashi Potts
Start: 2026-01-21T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-01-21T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Cathedral Church of St. Paul

Forgiveness: An Alternative Account. Talk with Rev. Matthew Ichihashi Potts

Join TSPC at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul for a talk on 'Forgiveness: An Alternative Account', during Christian Unity week.
About this Event

As part of Christian Unity week, the Rev. Dr. Matthew Ichihashi Potts will join us to speak on the subject of Forgiveness: An Alternative Account. From his book of the same name:

Matthew Ichihashi Potts explores the complex moral terrain of forgiveness, which he claims has too often served as a salve to the conscience of power rather than as an instrument of healing or justice. Though forgiveness is often linked with reconciliation or the abatement of anger, Potts resists these associations, asserting instead that forgiveness is simply the refusal of retaliatory violence through practices of penitence and grief. It is an act of mourning irrevocable wrong, of refusing the false promises of violent redemption, and of living in and with the losses we cannot recover.

Please join us from 6pm for refreshments; the talk will start at 6.30pm, followed by time for Q&A.

In person at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul. All are warmly invited - we hope you'll join us for what will be sure to be a fascinating talk; and for fellowship and discussion.