And Also With You What is Confession?
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Mar 10, 2025 The Rev. Kelli Joyce, an Episcopal priest and theology PhD student, explores confession, sin, mercy, and forgiveness. She contrasts liturgical and personal practices. Short reflections consider how confession can heal, be misused, and connect to restitution and pastoral care. Conversations touch on timing, corporate and one-on-one forms, and the role of absolution in community restoration.
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From Private Guilt To Liturgical Relief
- The Rev. Kelli Joyce describes growing up in a tradition that emphasized sin but not sacramental confession, finding corporate confession healing later in liturgy.
- She found assurance of pardon from a Baptist minister transformative during her mental health struggles and loved liturgy for that consistent mercy.
First Confession And Ongoing Worthiness
- Lizzie McManus-Dale shares her first confession memory before first communion and later valuing corporate confession as sufficient for her.
- She also recalls feeling unworthy during ordination preparation and hearing a professor's blunt reassurance about universal sinfulness.
Sin As What Thwarts Flourishing
- The Rev. Kelli Joyce reframes sin as 'death-dealing' actions that block flourishing rather than merely forbidden pleasures.
- She says confession then becomes an admission of need and an opening to receiving help, not self-punishment.
