Tag: Repentance

Welcome to the Resistance! Glad to have you aboard! One of the things the Christian tradition urges us to do is called an “examination of conscience”. Think of it as

The Greek word for repentance is metanoia. It means to turn around. A useful image. One time, when I was praying and meditating on this image, it occurred to me

…apart from the New Testament bearing absolutely no resemblance to it, is that it can be extremely toxic instead of healing. Case in point: Now don’t get me wrong. I

Here are two passages I ran across recently. The first is from Frederick Douglass and is perhaps the single most damning indictment of American Christianity’s capacity for combining gooey piety