The ethnographic data helped us to see how Japanese and missionaries forgive or don't forgive within their relationships, both inside and outside the church. Disparate understandings of apology were uncovered and we wrestled with how apology might function in relation to forgiveness cross-culturally as a result of some of the interview findings. Non-verbal communication and hidden expectations regarding leaders in the church were also addressed in relation to a forgiving identity. Forgiveness and its actual relationship to amae were explicated as well.
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