All the evil things you‘ve done: The Confessions by St Augustine

If you think you’ve done something really wrong, you might feel emotions like shame or guilt. So what do you do then? Do you go and tell someone? Would that make you feel better? In this East and West Learning Connections lecture, I discuss St Augustine's Confessions, a book which is about fifteen hundred years old. I also discuss the idea of confessing (telling your life story) and coming to a realization that you've been involved in a struggle of good versus evil, that your whole life has been a lie - an idea that we find in modern novels and biography, as well as Augustine's Confessions. [25 mins]