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When the heavy-jowled judge slams his gavel after issuing a sentence of decades, we might hear something about how now the miscreant will “pay for his crimes.” True, he will “pay” in the sense that he must surrender something, but to whom is this payment being made? Apart from a modestly increased safety [...]

Although I wash the dishes frequently, I tend to lead a dirty life. Running, yard work, and listening to non-Christian music leave me filthy. So do my assorted vices. Shame cometh, and right often.
In these guilty moments, I scrub a gamut of cleansing efforts, from justification to vows to rationalization to amnesia. [...]