Is confession really good for the soul?

Thursday, May 1, 2008 by Big Kahuna.

What the beginning of the story of “us” tells us is that there is no such thing as human progress, only regression. From one act of disobedience to murder, and not just any murder, but fratricide, in one generation! By the time we get to Noah, we get something like God knew that every intention of man’s heart was only evil all the time. That is like saying you don’t just have cancer, you are cancer, there is no health in us. In fact, in our tradition that is exactly what we used to confess, “We have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and we have done those things which we ought not to have done, and there is no health in us…” (We confessed that for the first 400 years of our Prayer Book but apparently we don’t want anyone’s self esteem to suffer so we leave that last bit out now.) Read the rest of this entry »

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