Word: confessional
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"At the bedside, one learns to suffer fools gladly, to disagree and not be disagreeable, to listen to most preposterous nonsense, to act as a confidential family lawyer, and to act as a priest hearing confession.
Not all of South India's Protestants will be members of the new church. Still outside are about 100,000 Baptists (they insist on adult baptism only), 200,000 Lutherans (they demand acceptance of the Augsburg Confession), a small number of U.S. Methodists, and 200,000 members of the...
From the editors of '47, the contributor-owned "magazine of the year," came the confession of the year. "Up to now, '47 has let everybody down," admitted a postcard from the editors to all subscribers. "Instead of being notable, it's been flat, dull, ordinary."
In the public confession of ideological error, there is often Communist salvation.
"I don't make any apology for putting the failure of the church on this personal level ... I think that the first business of the church is to redeem me. And I don't mean to redeem me in the merely social sense which convinces me that the...