On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World

by Danya Ruttenberg

A person who does harm is not irrevocably a sinner. Being someone who caused harm is not a fixed identity—or at least it does not have to be. We have free will, and we can always choose to clean up whatever mess we have made, to the fullest extent that we can, and change for the better.