Here is real help for coping with the common problems known as the Seven Deadly Sins: apathy, gluttony, anger, lust, greed, envy, and conceit.

Explaining each of the seven sins individually, Brian Grant shows how they typify the various stages of life and reveals what we are really trying to accomplish when we fall into them. "Sin," writes Grant, "is not primarily a sign or a mark of a person's evil, but a sign of an attempt to make life rich and meaningful an attempt which failed. Hence the way to make life abundant is not to strive first to avoid sin, but to learn from it what one's unfulfilled needs are so one can go about getting them met in a more effective and enrich- ing way."