Loving the Sinner, Hating the Sin: An Interfaith Panel on Dealing with the Penitent Most religious traditions ordain clergy whose job includes counseling members who have strayed from accepted boundaries. Some religions require confession to a priest or pastor when sin is committed, some hold ecclesiastical courts, and some make forgiveness a matter between the penitent and God only. In bringing people happily back into the fold–what works best? This panel, consisting of clergy from three Christian traditions, will discuss their own methods of “loving the sinner.”

Devery Anderson, The Rev. Canon Alan C. Tull, Father Bartholomew Hutchenson