How To Repent In Public

Language Log has instructions on how to apologize for sin in public:

1. Carefully choose the best place to do it.
2. Have your family, especially your wife, standing next to you.
3. Admit wrong-doing in a general way.
4. Frame an apology without specifics.
5. Say that you have learned your lesson and you will never do this again .
6. Take no questions.