How to Be a Sinner
WHOSE HEART ISN’T prodigal? One of the gifts Augustine offers is a spirituality for realists. Conversion is not a “solution.” Conversion is not a magical transport home, some kind of Floo powder to heaven. Conversion doesn’t pluck you off the road; it just changes how you travel.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
Comme l’explique Tolle, le terme « péché », en araméen, signifie « rater la cible » et n’est donc chargé d’aucune connotation moralisatrice ou culpabilisante. Pécher, selon Jésus, c’est manquer l’objectif : c’est passer à côté du but de la vie, qui est d’honorer le divin en autrui et en soi-même, de s’aimer soi et d’aimer l’autre. Alors pourquoi l’
... See moreJonathan Lehmann • Journal intime d'un touriste du bonheur (Developpement personnel) (French Edition)
The problem is that many of us today hear “sinner” and think only in religious categories. The sinner is the one who “breaks the Law,” but the “Law” becomes understood not in terms of “Love your neighbor as yourself” or “Leave the corners of your field for the poor,” but in terms of earning one’s way into heaven, legalism, or works-righteousness.
Amy-Jill Levine • Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi
