Does Forgiveness Lead to Forgetting?

For the John Templeton Foundation, I wrote about how forgiveness changes (and doesn’t change) our memories:

It’s hard to talk about forgiveness without also talking about its relationship to memory. In his 1998 forward to the final report of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Archbishop Desmond Tutu used the metaphor of closing the door on the past—“not in order to forget it, but in order not to allow it to imprison us.” But how does that actually work in practice? Can you forgive without at least partially forgetting?

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