Redeeming the World – Oct. 1, 2021
“The power of repentance is that it brings redemption to the world. Each time we repent, we push the world a little closer toward goodness, and a little farther from evil. And in that sense, every act [of repentance] has cosmic significance.” –Louis Newman, On Being interview with Krista Tippett
Run Toward Our Transgressions – Sep. 30, 2021
“However small or large, our immediate instinct is to run away from our transgression. Or to hide it. Or to lie about what we did so that nobody will find out about it. And in doing that, we’re in bondage to the thing that we’ve done. We let it dictate our next move, and the […]
Who We Really Are – Sep. 29, 2021
“Repentance really is about coming to terms with who we really are. That’s true in a couple of senses: both in terms of claiming our own mistakes, not running from them, not hiding them, but actually claiming them – knowing that they’re true and owning them; and also owning the fact that deep down, our […]
Not in Bondage – Sep. 28, 2021
“We cannot literally go back in time and undo what we did. And yet, repentance is precisely that process by which we can — in the moral realm, if not in the physical realm — we can go back to the deed, we can find that part of ourselves that led to doing the transgression, […]
