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An important film that Comment profiled a year ago, As We Forgive, is being screened at the University of Toronto next month. Windrider Toronto (out of Wycliffe College) is showing this story about forgiveness occuring against impossible odds. The filmmaker, Laura Waters Hinson, will be on hand as well. Details at www.windridertoronto.org.
. . . And for our readers in the Northwest, consider attending Action: Microfinance and Your Role in Solving Global Poverty, staged next month at Seattle Pacific University. The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, Kiva, Agros International and World Vision will all send executives to speak at this exciting event. More details on the May 8-9, 2009 event at www.spu.edu/microfinance.