Word: sin
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...Landry and his colleagues at Peninsula: "Let he who has no sin cast the first stone." Stephanie Jordan...
...Gomes at last sets the Christian free to live by that principle which Paul was too timid to approve: "let us continue in sin, that grace may abound." A great victory, indeed, one long sought after, and one not unworthy so great a knight of Christ as Harvard's Plummer Professor of Christian Morals...
...Sin is lack of trust in God. That is sinful which also destroys life and enhances the powers of death-dealing. But we are all sinful! Let's be honest about this. I, a male, heterosexual, white, aging, middle-class person, certainly have been sexist, racist, over-bearing, unfaithful to my God, and sinful in ways beyond my knowing...
...mourn the wounding of the soul, narrowing of the theological conception of sin into a knife of moralism, and the powers of death disguised as Truth which are walking the Yard in some quarters in these days...
...might be less so if their medically unalterable orientation did not require them to participate in a struggle for basic rights which has continued unjustly for far longer than Wasinger's 20-odd years. Here we are interested in ensuring that Peninsula's version of the adage "hate the sin but love the sinner," informed as it is by the authors' stated desire to develop laws, public policies, and community standards which would publicly "discourage" homosexuality, is not mistaken by homosexuals or straights for either a solution to discrimination-induced unhappiness, or a valid approach towards dealing with gay people...