February 23, 2015

“Sin” is a word that gets a bad rap. Perhaps rightly so. The word has been used as a tool to shame the already vulnerable, calling them “sinners,” singling them out as dirty and separate. More often, the word has been used with a kind of insufferable solemnity, a resolute refusal to lighten up, an effort to immobilize mankind in one great, awkward, eternal, pompous hush of holiness.