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Seven Deadly Redux
I keep thinking about the Seven Deadly Sins, and I continue to be helped by Dorothy Sayer’s thoughts. She writes in her essay, “The Other Six Deadly Sins” the following: “The Church then, officially recognizes six other capital or basic sins–seven altogether. Of these, three may be roughly called the…
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Deadly Doing
This will be coming out in Kernersville News‘ “Words to Live By” column on Thursday I think. I do have a bee in my bonnet. According to a study done by Kansas State geographers, the Southeast is hot bed of sin. Thomas Vought presented the results of a study in…
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Seven Deadly Sins: Pride
Of Pride, Dorothy Sayers in her commentary on Dante’s Purgatory writes, “Pride is the head and root of all sin, both original and actual. It is the endeavour to be ‘as God’, making self, instead of God, the centre about which the will and desire revolve. In its narrower and…
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The Seven Deadly Sins: Envy
The second of the Perverted Loves is Envy. Envy, though akin to greed or avarice is taken beyond an excessive love for one’s own welfare to the desire to deprive another of that thing which you desire. Where greed would work an ingratitude to God for all that he has…
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The Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath
We make the turn from the excessive loves (greed, gluttony, and lust) and the defective love (sloth) into the final three of the Deadly Sins which are what Dorothy Sayers refers to as Love Perverted. The Perverted Loves are loves which though mirrored in some of the others becomes so…
Backward Mutters 