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Confessing Sin, Then and Now

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The words and phrases we use to confess our sin imply something significant about our understanding of sin.

I have only ever used the 1662 Book of Common Prayer for my local parish worship. After many years of being a Presbyterian, I became an Anglican and began praying, at home and in church, the prayers from the 1662 BCP. But recently I have been traveling, and as it happened, I was in a few places that used the 2019 BCP. As you might expect, I stumbled at a couple of spots. It wasn’t at the really dramatic edits, though. Those were so big that I could see them coming. Instead, it was in the smaller edits, the changes located within an otherwise familiar text. The most jarring of these were in…

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