Instead of 'reconciliation,' call them to confession, repentance and change.
Collins's statement is as much a call to arms as a personal confession: "I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport.
Why did Ted Sorensen respond with what he called "a confession to make to my colleagues on the American side, as well as to others who are present," that he had edited Robert Kennedy's diaries that formed the basis of the book "Thirteen Days" to prevent the disclosure of the deal, which "was still a secret even on the American side, except for the six of us who had been present at that meeting"?
Brutally honest about almost all of her life, Oprah ushered in what some would call a "confession culture".
He is currently completing a book called Performing Confession: From Robert Lowell to Reality TV.
In the black-and-white picture, there's what you might call a double confession: there's somebody having a confession in the booth and somebody about to get to the booth having a confession with a friend.
Prisoners were called on to make constant confessions of everyday behavior, a nonstop ritual of submission to authority.
He was quick to erect monuments to his dead wife, but Pomeroy reads guilt in his haste and calls them "tantamount to a confession".
In 2011 the Vatican granted the first digital imprimatur to an app called "Confession" which helps people prepare for confession.
Reported by Zachary Mider and Zeke Faux, the series revealed how an obscure legal document called a "confession of judgment" used New York's court system to collect debts, bankrupting businesses and ruining lives in the process.
Bibi was convicted of blasphemy in 2010 and, after what her lawyers called a forced confession, was sentenced to death by one court.
