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A Timeshare in Babylon

One of the greatest acts of Christian mislabelling is our ongoing use of the term 'personal sin'. Ours is a privatised and individualised world, a space of readily agreed boundaries where the great measure of morals is whether or not our behaviour 'harms anyone else'. If the answer to that loaded question is in the…

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The pain of personal sin

I want to think about sin, sinning, and my sense of self. So often my mental processing of sin is impulsive, a kind of muscle memory which, in my worst moments, reflexively rebels against the right and towards the wrong; or it is tragically retrospective, picking up the shrapnel of self-detonation. These are important issues,…