I also appreciate your thoughts on sin and your wonderings about the shift Boyle makes. I agree with you that naming everything we used to call sin “mental illness” is not accurate or helpful. I still regularly use the term “sin” as it is so ingrained in our Lutheran tradition, but over the years I have shifted to a different understanding of sin. Rather than the traditional understanding that we are all born awful, sinful creatures (“dung” as Luther describes it), I have come to believe that we are all created and born good, and our goodness is obscured by unprocessed, unhealed trauma, handed down from generation to generation. This has enabled me to (imperfectly) have more compassion and understanding for others and for myself.