sin

It’s not that they know nothing; it’s just that we don’t like to talk about what they know.

The war in Iran underscores what was already evident: Trump goes on instinct, and his instinct is to dominate others.

Ash Wednesday offers a counterpoint to every tendency that aims to hide facets of our life from God.

Historian Surekha Davies exposes humanity’s long-standing practice of turning difference into monstrosity.

In the company of church members in recovery from addiction, I’m feeling more open to the doctrine of original sin.

Does weariness of the soul make us apathetic toward what is good?

David Zahl maps the conservative/liberal binary according to distinctions between high and low anthropologies.

The White Lotus is part of a growing subgenre that probes extreme wealth as moral deformity.

Lent beckons us to claim those forgotten things we’d packed away.

Amid pandemic and protest, will we turn to each other and live?

When unremitting human sin is something I expect, I can face evil without despair.

To speak words of grace, we must first name the powers and principalities that hold us captive.

Do practices make us better people? Lauren Winner isn't so sure.

Can we read scripture critically and theologically at the same time?

Wright tells a great story. Would the apostle recognize it?

It is the church's work.

Thirty years later my petty crime came back to haunt me.

“It's a sin problem,” goes the slogan, “not a gun problem.” Whatever definition of sin is operative here, it isn't Paul’s.

Sin distorts the reciprocity for which God made us.

There are two sure things in life: death and sin.