For a year after we married, my husband and I attended an Anglican church. It was the first time I’d encountered liturgy on a weekly basis, learning its rhythms. Among those rhythms is corporate ...

I was made aware that one cannot get into heaven with unconfessed sins. When I thought about this, I realized from the scriptures that God wants us to confess our sins. Look at 1 John 1:9, "If ye ...

“Receive the Holy Spirit,” said the risen Lord to his apostles. “If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven. If you retain the sins of any, they are retained.” The sacrament of Penance, ...

So, tell me — have you confessed your sins to God today? If you have, why did you do that if you’ve already been forgiven for those sins when Christ died for you on the cross? With that, I’d like to ...

Speaking to His disciples, Jesus said, in Matthew 7:11, “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to ...

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted, and saves the crushed in spirit. ~ Ps 34:18 In Angela’s Ashes, his searing and spirited memoir of his impoverished childhood in Ireland, Frank McCourt writes ...

My ancestors have been part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since the early 1850s, joining in England and then migrating to Zion. They arrived in Utah just in time for the public ...

How do these conversations get started? My seatmate on the flight was a sixteen year old cowboy named Cody. The flight attendant had come around handing out wine which I accepted with delight.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. —I ...

Pope Francis said Sunday that God forgets sins absolved within the confessional. "How do you defeat evil? Accepting God's forgiveness … It happens every time we go to confession; there we receive the ...

I have a confession: I’ve lived in Charlotte for eight years and I’ve never been on or in Lake Norman. That’s right, I’ve somehow managed to not visit the largest manmade lake that sits just outside ...

I consider a scenario where a social planner suspects that a crime has been committed. There are many suspects and at most one of them is guilty. I characterize the optimal mechanism for the social ...