so i have a question for the storytellers of OST: on a personal level, what do you think about sin? on a daily level do you see it, feel it, address it? if so how? why?

does a post-eschatological perspective affect your understanding of or need for repentance? what about communion? do i just misunderstand post-eschatological? if so, how?

what do you do with the image of the blood of the lamb? certainly this is a part of israel’s story. what about us?

i was raised in the reformed tradition, and we spent a lot of time on sin - even the frozen chosen may clap their hands over the blood -encouraged to repent with regularity for everything from commission to omission. it was a frank detailing of how i had “missed the mark.” in contrast, though my irish catholic grandmother felt compelled to go to confession, she spent far less time on where she had gone wrong. and too, instead of focusing on our failings, i always admired how in her tradition, the focus was on the wafer, not the sin, as it became - by miracle of story - the actual body of christ.

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