Two others also, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death with him. When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified Jesus there with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. Then Jesus said, "Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing." Luke 23:32-34a

The Brothers Karamazov is a novel written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a Russian author, at the close of the nineteenth century (1880). It is a story about a father and his sons as they struggled to be a family. One of the characters in the book is a priest by the name of Father Zossima. On an occasion, a peasant woman comes to Father Zossima greatly burdened. On her knees, bowed before the priest, she pours out her heart. "I have sinned, Father," she says. "I am afraid of my sin."…