Sermon Illustrations
Novelist Identifies the Human Condition
On the Bill Moyers PBS special Genesis, panelists from diverse religious backgrounds spoke to the issues raised in the first book of the Bible. After the rest of the panel tiptoed around the problem of sin, which has beset humankind since the fall, bestselling novelist Mary Gordon got sick of all the political correctness. She said: "People just aren't right. There is something fundamentally wrong with us that we cannot fix ourselves."