A recent editorial in the New York Times commented how our culture has lost it's common "language" when it comes to religious matters. Words that most people understood in previous generations like salvation and grace have lost their meaning. "Some words, like 'sin,'" the author Jonathan Merritt points out, "now felt so negative that they lodged in my throat."Sin and punishment are words that many in both culture and in church would like to have eliminated. I even find myself speaking of sin in [...]