Jim's Email
Jim from North Carolina suggested the 10/09/2006 program called "Forgiveness." Here's an excerpt from his e-mail.
Dick,
I am very much enjoying THE STORY. You are a terrific interviewer with a great eye for a new angle.
Occasionally I have heard you ask for suggestions regarding topics for future editions of your show. Here's one that you might want to do (or not, of course). The theme is forgiveness. It has been coming up most recently in connection with the Amish school shooting. A skillful interviewer like you, with more than a sound-bite to devote to a topic, could do so much more with this important theme than any journalist I've heard lately.
Edward H. ("Ned") Hallowell of the Hallowell Center in Sudbury, NA (and formerly of Harvard Medical School), and Robert D. Enright of the Forgiveness Institute at UW-Madison. Both have written books in the new millennium that make a strong case for learning how to forgive being even more important to a person's health than diet and exercise are. See Hallowell, DARE TO FORGIVE (2004) and Enright, FORGIVENESS IS A CHOICE (2001). They are both good interviewees and are passionate about the topic.
Another interesting book with a different angle on the same topic is Ellis Cose, BONE TO PICK (2004). This author is an African American journalist who writes in a very compelling way about South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation hearings.
These authors' writings provided fuel for the fire that led to my writing of a new musical, based on Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST, that has forgiveness as its central theme.
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