Christian doctrine recognises the power of guilt and the atoning work of Christ which offers forgiveness / atonement for sin, ...

Tinsley: The Minnesota humorist, Garrison Keillor, once observed that people do bad, horrible, dirty, rotten and despicable ...

The prophets and apostles, though, told us that sin and guilt—along with the search for a meaning to life, the fear of death, and an answer to shame—might be culturally amplified realities ...

Guilt is an injury to our soul that exposes us to further pain. Isaiah felt the pain of his sin most acutely in his mouth. So intense was his guilt that he called woe and ruin on himself.

For James Joyce, humanity’s faulty condition “is happy because faults, errors, mistakes and misunderstandings” are the birth of comedy, writes Gabrielle Carey in a new biography.