Sin and virtue

If you sin, sin boldly, openly. If you are virtuous, keep it quiet.

Keeping secrets

Luther’s theological ejaculation “Sin boldly” confronts the problem of secretiveness. Hiddenness is an obscurity, a fearfulness, vastly worse in our imagination than what is hidden. We cannot love what we do not see.

Mistakes and half measures

A mistake is not a mistake unless we repeat it.

Martin Luther’s exhortation to his Protest-ants: “Sin boldly!”