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October 2021

October 19, 2021

Horizontal and Vertical Individualism and Collectivism

Not all individualist cultures are the same; neither are all collective contexts the same. We...

October 12, 2021

How Honor Affects Our Response to Covid

Did you know that honor even affects how people respond to Covid? While you might...

October 05, 2021

The Genesis of Masculinity and Femininity

Does the Bible clearly present a distinct, normative vision of masculinity and femininity, one that...

September 2021

September 28, 2021

When does masculinity and femininity become toxic?

Toxic gendering is when we embrace some fruit of the Spirit as primarily masculine or...

September 21, 2021

Defining masculinity and femininity biblically is harder than you think

This post prepares us to answer the question, “When do masculinity and femininity become toxic?”...

September 14, 2021

What’s the relationship between 4 types of shame?

In this post, I explain the interrelationship between 4 types of shame––shame as sensitivity, social,...

September 07, 2021

Jesus experienced shame, not low self-esteem

The difficulty is not that Ten Elshof uses “shame” in an odd, unprecedented way. Rather,...

August 2021

August 31, 2021

Flipping the Script on Shame and Shaming

Rather than insist that shame is toxic, we should work to understand when shame is...

August 25, 2021

Our new podcast is now ready!!

Today begins season 1 of "Doing Theology. Thinking Mission.", the podcast that brings theology and...

August 17, 2021

Finding Biblical Meaning and Cultural Significance

This post gives an overview of the final two stages of the contextualization process–– finding...

August 10, 2021

The First of Four Stages in Contextualization

In my previous post, I showed how the Bible and culture are inextricably tied together....

August 03, 2021

The Circular Relationship Between Culture and the Bible

Many people only want to say the Bible transcends culture. However, the facts present us...

July 2021

July 27, 2021

Ranking Schools Based On Reputation, Not Education

All cultures, including the US, care about honor or status. This post notes 4 ways...

July 20, 2021

Black Privilege and Weaponizing White Guilt

This post turns attention to the ways that CRT (and similar ideologies) employ toxic shame...

July 13, 2021

Does Critical Race Theory (CRT) Stigmatize Blacks?

This post considers the link between shame and Critical Race Theory (CRT), which, Shelby Steele...

July 06, 2021

How failure distinguishes “good” and “bad” shame

We need to ask the question, “What distinguishes good and bad shame?” But haven’t researchers,...

June 2021

June 29, 2021

Why Does Peter Call Women Weaker?

Few verses are as controversial as 1 Peter 3:7. Some people flatly ignore it, regarding...

June 22, 2021

How the Cave People of Nepal were Honored into Existence

This post explains how the Cave People, small tribe in Nepal, "came into existence" simply...

June 15, 2021

Forsaking Identity is the Logical Consequence of Individualism

Individualism is not individuality. It is an ideology. Such a worldview is not only irrational;...

June 08, 2021

My EMS video presentation on contextualization

I recently gave a short presentation titled "Biblically Faithful and Culturally Meaningful Contextualization? Moving Beyond...

June 01, 2021

Shame is a Unique Solution to a Unique Problem

Here are unique features of shame, compared to guilt, that are both interesting and important....

May 2021

May 25, 2021

Distinguishing Guilt and Shame (Part 1)

People always ask, “What’s the difference between guilt and shame?” It seems that I’ve never...

May 17, 2021

Why complementarians think women pastors are a gospel issue

Saying complementarianism only “indirectly” relates to the gospel doesn't mean you communicate that idea. One...

May 11, 2021

The Ministry of Women in the Chinese Church

The recent issue of ChinaSource Quarterly reflects on women’s contribution to the Chinese church. This...

May 04, 2021

Civility is a Life and Death Issue

Over the past number of years, incivility has destroyed friendships. It has divided families and...

April 2021

April 27, 2021

Yes, we stereotype. So now what?

In America, “Don’t label me!” is the constant refrain. Outside of the West (especially North...

April 22, 2021

Interesting Article and Reviews in Themelios

The most recent issue of Themelios (April 2021) contains an article and several book reviews...

April 20, 2021

Separating for the Sake of Church Unity

Winsome Conviction opens with a provocative statement: “there are times when the best way to...

April 13, 2021

Argument Culture, Not Conviction, Threatens the Church

Without understanding how to disagree well, the church will never have unity, just mere conformity....

April 06, 2021

Is biblical womanhood an example of syncretism?

When I first heard about Barr’s The Making of Biblical Womanhood, I wasn’t interested in...

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