(OPINION) Are we really not allowed to call ourselves what we are? Sinners. In a video clip shared on Christian Media outlet Protestia’s X account, an Episcopal pastor delivered a sermon on the unthinkable: why she believes the term “sinner” is uncomfortable.
She started with the tactic of stating, “You’re all going to hell. Aren’t you glad we don’t go to that church? You’re not, you’re not.”
She then expressed Christianity as having “spectrums” for believing in sin and God’s redemption.
“I don’t think anybody, no matter what tradition you come from…wherever you are on the spectrum, I don’t think any of us are comfortable anymore with the language of being a sinner.”
“I don’t think any of us are comfortable anymore with the language of being a ‘sinner’…’sinner’ is a word I don’t use very much because I think it alienates more people from God than it helps.”
Episcopal church ‘pastor’ on why no one goes to hell and why ‘sin’ is eschewed. pic.twitter.com/UNhXK6Ka1M
— Protestia (@Protestia) January 28, 2026
Since when does Christianity remove the one thing that properly identifies humanity for what we are? We are broken, hopeless, born as sinners. That is exactly why we need the Gospel.
That is the whole point of Jesus’ death and resurrection. We are incapable of saving ourselves and can only be saved through the Savior. “Whether we associate sin with shame and self-punishment or with those creepy sermons about hellfire…sinner is a word I don’t use very much because I think it alienates more people from God than it helps.” READ MORE
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