Reflections on Atonement

Beyond Forgiveness: Sharing Stories and Taking Action for Atonement

Welcome to this site for sharing stories, educating and inspiring each other to take action for atonement.

Atonement goes beyond forgiveness, and can act as the missing link between simple forgiveness and true reconciliation. Atonement is an act that rights a wrong, makes amends, repairs harm, offers restitution, clears the conscience, and takes the vital next step from forgiveness to full reconciliation.

Explore this site and learn more about healing the past and restoring balance in our lives and world through atonement. Share your story and discover the stories of others. Learn about atonement, how it works, and why. Take action in your own life and community to bring balance and resolution to your life.

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Atonement Stories

Sharing experiences of healing, forgiveness and reconciliation

Share Your Story

Following the loss of his only son Tariq in 1995 to a senseless, gang-related murder, Azim Khamisa chose the path of forgiveness and compassion rather than revenge and bitterness. He carries an inspirational message of forgiveness, peace and hope into a world in desperate need of each. The founder of the Tariq Khamisa Foundation, in Southern California, Azim Khamisa lectures frequently to school children about about the realities of violence and gangs, and the importance forgiveness and making positive choices. Read on as he shares a story on nurturing empathy.

Featured Story

The Requirements for Reconciliation

by Azim N. Khamisa

Following the loss of his only son Tariq in 1995 to a senseless, gang-related murder, Azim Khamisa chose the path of forgiveness and compassion rather than revenge and bitterness. He carries an inspirational message of forgiveness, peace and hope into a world in desperate need of each. The founder of the Tariq Khamisa Foundation, in Southern California, Azim Khamisa lectures frequently to school children about about the realities of violence and gangs, and the importance forgiveness and making positive choices. Read on as he shares a story on nurturing empathy.

Take Action

Our Take Action Toolkit provides you with inspiring ideas and techniques for taking action around atonement. Whether you're an educator, a counselor, a member of the clergy, or simply an individual wanting to make a difference, there's something here for you.

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Share Your Story

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." ~Maya Angelou

Share your own personal story or reflection on forgiveness. By telling your own unique story, you're taking part in an ancient quest for personal, as well as collective, healing.

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The Book

In Beyond Forgiveness, some of the world's most influential activists and thinkers show how acts of atonement—making amends, providing restitution, restoring balance—can relieve us of the pain of the past and give us a hopeful future. (Jossey-Bass, 2011)

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