A fresh start: New year a time for change, healing -- and atonement

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | December 30, 2006| | Copyright

Now comes the New Year, the season of fresh starts. We celebrate by opening our calendars and staring at the pristine pages. We make a resolution or two. We revel in the knowledge that we have a chance to make this year better than the one before.

Some religious people will say that there cannot be a fresh start, even for something as simple as a diet, without atonement. The word atonement means reconciliation, or "at one ment." It implies that mistakes -- even sins -- can somehow be made right.

In the Hebrew scriptures, in Leviticus especially, there are guidelines for the ways in which ...

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