Ms. Rasul delved into a personal journey on forgiveness. She discovers that it is a lifelong quest. In our modern society, most people can be so quick to judge and condemn others or even themselves. It is human nature to withhold forgiveness, sometimes for years, decades, or even a lifetime. Holding onto anger and resentment will hurt you more than it can hurt the other person. However, you can choose to carry on the burden and past grievances, or you can choose to forgive completely and be at peace with yourself and God. Forgiveness is a decision. Forgiveness is free. The 70X7 is a Christian infinity symbol, which means forgiveness must be given infinite and without limit. Forgiveness does not have a timeline. So, you can take your time. The first two chapters lay out some forgiveness verses from a religious perspective. Then, Ms. Rasul takes on various self-help books that discuss traditional and radical forgiveness. We must be willing to open our hearts and accept forgiveness over resentment. True forgiveness can only come from the core of one's heart. What you withhold suppress your peace. What you release determines your freedom.

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In The Russian Quest for Peace and Democracy, Metta Spencer recounts the political and military changes that have occurred in Russia up to mid-2010. Using hundreds of interviews she conducted with officials, dissidents, and liberal intellectuals, she describes the various groups, forces, and individuals that worked to liberalize the totalitarian Soviet Union and its fellow nations behind the Iron Curtain, and which ultimately brought about the dissolution of those repressive governments. Spencer identifies four political orientations to describe Soviet society: 'Sheep,' ordinary citizens who accepted the undemocratic regime they lived in without challenging it; 'Dinosaurs,' hard-line Communist officials; 'Termites,' including Mikhail Gorbachev and his advisers and government; and 'Barking Dogs,' a few hundred dissidents who made 'a lot of noise' protesting, hoping to awaken a grass-roots demand for democracy. The strange rivalry between the Termites and Barking Dogs would ultimately doom perestroika. Spencer's research dispels the widely-held perception that US President Ronald Reagan 'won' the Cold War by standing firm until the Soviet Union 'blinked first.' There are vitally important lessons to be learned from the Soviet period, about how to assist citizens of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes around the world. The irony is that transnational civil society organizations, major sources of the progress in Soviet Russia, are still needed today in authoritarian Russia, under Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, for totalitarianism remains a potential social trap. In The Russian Quest for Peace and Democracy, Metta Spencer suggests new ways of building urgently-needed social capital in today's Russia, where democracy has yet to flourish.

Dry examines the U.S. Supreme Court's treatment of the First Amendment freedoms of religion and speech against the founding of the American Constitution and its philosophical underpinnings.