"Sin" - huh?

Oxford University Press has removed a number of words associated with Christianity from its latest edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary, including “sin”, “devil”, “psalm” and “saint”.

The publisher says the changes have been made to reflect the fact that Britain is a modern, multicultural, multifaith society.

With fewer children in the UK exposed to Christian teaching than in past years, and reference to biblical terms being purged from school textbooks, it’s hardly surprising that these words are dropping from everyday language – and hence from the dictionary.

How much harder will it be for evangelists to tell this generation that Jesus died “for their sins”? Hebrews 7:27)