Tag Archives: Sin

Frodo’s Battle with Sin

By Robin Bates | Published: May 18, 2014

Students discover that “Lord of the Rings” is a story about their Christian journeys.

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Ballad of a Nun, a Bordello, and Mary

By Robin Bates | Published: September 8, 2013

Scott Bates’ “Ballad of Thoughtful Love” retells a medieval fable about a nun-turned-whore who is saved by the Virgin Mary.

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Finding Peace along with a Lost Goat

By Robin Bates | Published: April 21, 2013

Poet Yehudi Amichai gives us a powerful poem about losing our way and being found.

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Sin = Separation from Creation

By Robin Bates | Published: May 20, 2012

Seeing sin more as human separateness from creation than as disobeying God may be a more powerful way to teach the concept to today’s students.

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Michael Vick and the Scarlet Letter

By Robin Bates | Published: November 27, 2010

Sports Saturday Quarterback Michael Vick of the Philadelphia Eagles continues to be the most interesting story in American sports. After spending two years in jail for participating in dog fighting, against all predictions he has emerged to become one of the most dynamic players in the National Football League. In the last three weeks he […]

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Washing Away Michael Vick’s Sins

By Robin Bates | Published: October 3, 2010

Spiritual Sunday In a follow-up to yesterday’s post on football quarterback Michael Vick, I want to elaborate further on Coleridge’s argument for penance. Penance is not only the right thing to do. It also can make you feel very, very good. Coleridge gives us images in Rime of the Ancient Mariner that drive this point […]

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Sinning: A Tacky Floor Show

By Robin Bates | Published: March 9, 2010

There’s a funny scene in the original Bedazzled (the 1967 film with Dudley Moore, not the one with Adam Sandler) where Moore, having sold his soul to the devil, is watching a particularly tawdry floor show in a seedy bar where he can’t get good service.  As I recall the film, the seven deadly sins […]

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