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What do you do when you have a problem you need solving? I will admit that sometimes I’ll go to Google for answers to some of my concerns. I will type in my question in that little rectangle, add ‘Christian’ on the end for good measure and hope to find an answer. Admittedly, this can be very dangerous and sometimes – but this is normal with most questions asked, even when we ask people instead of search engines – I only end up with more unanswered questions. So my latest issue concerned a couple of people who I was really struggling to forgive. The problem is that I don’t really know these people and when I searched for what I thought was a common problem; I found the opposite seemed to be true for the rest of the internet universe. You see I found it really difficult to forgive someone I...

If you are computer literate and used to computer operating systems, surely you have already encountered or heard about Ubuntu, a free, open-source operating system. That’s certainly not the meaning we would like to address in this magazine, even if we are confident that the name of the computer operating system is inspired by the South African concept Ubuntu from the Bantu language. As we devote this month’s topic to ‘forgiveness’, it is important to know already from the beginning, that we think with a deep conviction that forgiveness is not an empty philosophical concept or an unachievable ideal. On the contrary, it is even achievable daily.  The Bible tells us that it is possible and it is a paramount criterion for those willing to have a better relationship with God. In Luke 17 Je...