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Sin or sickness? .(Letter to the Editor)

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From: The Christian Century
Date: 20030308
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KATHLEEN NORRIS sets up an unhelpful polarity ("Plain old sloth," Jan. 11). In talking about each day belonging to the Lord, she says, "To the person of faith, this is heaven; to one mired in sloth, it is hell." The implication is that if she had faith, or more faith, she wouldn't have experienced an inability to concentrate on serious matters or felt so soul-weary. Such a contrasting of faith with an experience which might well be depression compounds the problem. For me the most helpful way to view such soul-weariness has been to hold fast to the progression proclaimed by Paul ...

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