There are sins, complicity and guilt for which I know I must answer, even though I cannot get the answer “right.” There are poverties in my soul that are beyond my own making, but for which I ...

After sin, the sinner experiences guilt, while the victim experiences han. Han can manifest itself in many forms. Individually, han may result in desire for revenge, resignation, bitterness or ...

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 ...

Sin and guilt mustn’t define us, even as we face the full brunt of our actions and accept the consequences of failure. Committing a sin doesn’t make us sinful people.

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.