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Listening to Your Life
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Searching for Meaning
Our Shared Story
The Meaning of 'Christian'
Sinners as Saints
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Christians
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Despair
March 15, 2020
Jaclyn O'Riley
Despair
Jaclyn O'Riley
March 15, 2020

Despair

Jaclyn O'Riley
March 15, 2020

DESPAIR HAS BEEN CALLED the unforgivable sin—not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.

-Originally published in Wishful Thinking and later in Beyond Words  


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