Mary, thank you for sharing your fine essay "The Confessing Prophet: Righting

Wrongs and Facilitating Moral Repair in Prophetic Confession," exploring the

work of Cathleen Kaveny and calling for a reevaluation of Prophetic Indictment in
interplay with Prophetic Confession. You make a strong argument for introducing
prophetic confession as a necessary component of the righting wrongs and
facilitating moral repair. So, I have some questions for you about how that
happens. Going back to the section of your essay called "the Confessing Prophet
and Moral Injury," where you clarify how confession can play this important role,
you write: (Crucially (p.13-14) ... that code."

So here are my questions:

Who must be present to hear the indicting prophet's confession? Is it sufficient to

make this confession in the presence of God, against those who have been
transgressed against? Need it be made in the company of one's fellow
transgressors, the nation? What is the relationship of the prophet's individual
confession (such as Isaiah 6., "I am a person of unclean lips from a-l)eople of
unclean lips?) in preparation for answering the call, to the prophet's collective
confession of the nation's sin in fulfilling the call? Some confessions are public,
others more private. I am thinking in particular of the ways in which the 51 st Psalm
has been invoked as a battlefield prayer of confession, and how veterans
recovering from Moral Injury sometimes respond to the inclusion of the 51 st Psalm
in rituals of Confession and forgiveness. In your view, what is required to release
the protective power of prophetic confession for activation of the transformational
and potential of the prophetic indictment? Must the transformation be public, or
can the liberation of the prophet be internal?