or she is culpable for that behavior. Life is complicated. We are enmeshed in unsettling realities. So Christ’s grace sets out to do something more multifaceted than simply charging the unambiguously guilty and rescuing the unambiguously innocent. He enters sympathetically into the totality of human experience. He touches all our sins and all our afflictions. Jesus’s mercies make all things new. His grace is a most versatile stain remover. He redeems both the wayward and the wounded. His wisdom puts