The doctrine of original sin is the only empirically verifiable doctrine of the Christian faith—Reinhold Niebuhr       Making sense of original sin with Reinhold Niebuhr. I never took the concept of sin seriously until I read Reinhold Niebuhr.  I think this is mostly because I didn’t read Niebuhr until I was in my sixties, when … Continue reading Making sense of original sin with Reinhold Niebuhr