Forgiveness is something most of us know well, yet the hard cases are the ones that test us. This talk, led by Hanne Mejlhede, looks at why forgiveness can be a blessing or a provocation depending on what it is aimed at, whether it is conditional or unconditional, and why an old grudge we thought we had overcome can suddenly flare up again.
Mejlhede is a trained theologian and psychotherapist who has worked for many years as a parish priest and prison chaplain. She is the author of the book Tilgivelse (2020) and wrote her final project for a Master's in Søren Kierkegaard on the cost of forgiveness. The evening is framed as a community gathering, with the focus on forgiveness as a demanding process aimed at making us free.
