Pacific Press Publishing Association released Dr. Lourdes Morales-Gudmundsson's book, I Forgive You, But..." in English and Spanish in May 2007. Based on over 25 years of researching and writing on this topic, Dr. Morales wrote this book for the general public (college-level reading).

She has been presenting her seminar by the same title since the late 1980s in 14 continental states,  Hawaii, Panama and Guatemala, Brazil, Iceland, and, most recently, in Australia and Tahiti at Adventist churches and spiritual retreats. In the fall of 2006 she was the featured speaker on this topic at the Annual Council with Shepherdess International. Her book carries endorsements from such noted forgiveness scholars as Dr. Everett Worthington, Jr. (Virginia Commonwealth University) , Dr. Frederic Luskin (Stanford Forgiveness Project, Stanford University), and Dr. Daniel Smith-Christopher (Loyola-Marymount University) in addition to Adventist theologians, Dr. George Knight and Dr. Lawrence Geraty.

An interview with Dr. Morales will appear in the upcoming issue of Shabbat Shalom (edited by Dr. Jacques Doukhan, Andrews University) and she will be recording a series on forgiveness for Three Angels Broadcasting Network this summer.

She has applied her study of forgiveness to the literature of 20th-century Latin America, particularly in the works of Isabel Allende and Gabriel García Márquez.

Thursday, March 4, 2010