remember reading the words of a doctor who said, “I could dismiss half of my patients if I could just look them in the eye and give them the assurance that they are forgiven.” The eminent psychiatrist Karl Menninger wrote a famous book entitled Whatever Became of Sin? in which he said: The very word, “sin,” which seems to have disappeared, was a proud word. It was once a strong word, an ominous and serious word. But the word went away. It has almost disappeared—the word, along with the notion. Why? Doesn’t