sin

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.

People do terrible things. So does the biblical God. Is there value in naming those things?

“I tried to remember that these are human beings, not caricatures.”

Faith is formed in us by the Spirit and the life of the church. It renews our elemental confidence and creates our disposition toward the world.

Far from being meaningless slights with minimal harm, microagressions intrude on the spiritual lives of those who are already marginalized and oppressed.