We have a hard time with confession these days. Traditionally, it served as the first step in repentance, acknowledging our failure to fully live according to the Gospel. Both John the Baptist and Jesus called people to repentance. The gospels picture them as prophets who ask us to rethink the way we live and change […]
One of the best sermons I ever heard was delivered by H. Richard Niebuhr when I entered divinity school. I can still see and hear him musing in the pulpit. He began simply saying, “Repent…. to rethink. Repent … to rethink. To repent is to rethink.” Once that sunk in, he elaborated with different ideas. […]
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