Forgiving Our Fathers: Time, Mortality, and Finding Peace / Stan Grant
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Stan Grant discusses themes of forgiveness, fatherhood, and mortality in relation to his upcoming book.
Mortality, fragility, forgiveness, and peace. Journalist and author Stan Grant offers a genre-bending work of prayer, memory, and theology shaped by fatherhood, Aboriginal inheritance, masculinity, and mortality. “I see this as a gift from God, a creator that allows us to find each other again.” In this conversation with Evan Rosa, Grant reflects on his 2025 book, *Murriyang: Song of Time*—his philosophical and spiritual exploration of the human place in the world and faith as lived experience rather than abstraction. He looks closely at his father’s life in order to come to terms with his own, the meaning of fatherhood and how to understand and forgive our fathers, masculinity and vulnerability, Aboriginal history and identity, masculinity and vulnerability, forgiveness and sacrifice, prayer and poetry, and the whole human experience of time and eternity. ------------------------ Episode Highlights “We inherit our father’s cups.” “We must forgive our fathers. It is the only way that we can forgive ourselves.” “We cannot survive without each other.” “Man is not made for history. History is made for man.” “ … to confront the beauty of that mortality—my father’s final gift to me is…
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