Sermons on Assimilation

Taking Sin Seriously Introduction:  In 1973, at the age of 80, Karl Menninger of the world-famous Menninger School of Psychiatry in Topeka, Kansas, published a book which shocked the mental health community.  Its title was Whatever Became of Sin?  It was not a biblical theology of sin, but its thesis was a welcome corrective, namely that moral responsibility must be brought back into the therapy process.  The shock, unfortunately, was short-lived, and today sin is once again as foreign a concept to psychiatry as efficiency…