Coveting.  Wickipedia defines it as desiring the unjust acquisition of your neighbor’s possessions.  Few of us actually qualify as tenth-commandment breakers, barring maybe O.J. Simpson and his breaking and entering habits. B ut, we’re not off the hook because coveting, more broadly understood, is also a kind of lusting after what others have.  And, I must confess that while in northern California, I found myself doing this a bit too regularly.

By Kristina Robb-Dover, a Presbyterian minister and writer. Read more from Kristina in her Saints and Sinners blog on Beliefnet.