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March 2021

March 30, 2021

“Confucian Shame in Christian Thinking” webinar video now posted

This week, I led a webinar with China Source where I explain distinctive features of...

March 23, 2021

Applying Honor and Shame for Christian Living

Te-li Lai says “In essence, the goal of Paul’s shaming refutation is Christic formation.” This...

March 15, 2021

Why I Left the SBC and IMB

After 30 years, I no longer belong to an SBC church. I worked with the...

March 09, 2021

How do honor and shame motivate moral decisions?

In order to apply and respond to shame or honor in constructive ways, we need...

March 03, 2021

Register for my “Confucian Shame in Christian Thinking” webinar

Here is the ChinaSource March Lecture: “Confucian Shame in Christian Thinking” (by Jackson Wu)

March 02, 2021

4 ways we seek honor and avoid shame

Everyone wants to gain honor and avoid shame. Although honor and shame play such a...

February 2021

February 23, 2021

Honor, Shame, and Christian Character (Video)

How do honor and shame influence moral decisions and Christian character? This talk shows a...

February 16, 2021

How Honor and Shame Infuse Christian Nationalism

How does one begin to sort how honor and shame infuse Christian nationalism? We must...

February 09, 2021

What or Who is a Christian Nation?

When it comes to the question, “Is America a Christian nation?”, people often confuse America’s...

February 02, 2021

Honor Restored Training Videos

Looking for videos that could supplement your training for ministry in honor-shame contexts? Thanks to...

January 2021

January 26, 2021

Why Salvation Brings Shame

In this post, I show how the prophets relate shame and salvation in three distinct...

January 19, 2021

Status Seeking and the Media We Consume

How do the sitcoms and movies we watch affect our views about social position, social...

January 12, 2021

Reviewing Rachel Welcher’s Talking Back to Purity Culture

The Imago Dei concerns both our bodies and our relationships with others, regardless of gender,...

January 05, 2021

Six Approaches to Contextualization in China

The following six categories signify six ways that theologians and missiologists talk about and do...

December 2020

December 29, 2020

A Dictionary for Learning Theological Chinese

In this post, I want to spotlight a fantastic specifically designed for English speakers who...

December 22, 2020

New and Noteworthy Articles and Reviews

If you can’t read everything (and you can’t), then read book reviews instead. This is...

December 16, 2020

Christ was Born with Honor through Shame

The narratives surrounding Jesus’ birth make it abundantly apparent that we misjudge what and who...

December 14, 2020

The Incarnation as the Revelation of Glory

All too often we speak of the incarnation as the action by which God sets...

December 08, 2020

Training Missionaries to Cross Honor-Shame Cultures

How might Christians from one honor-shame culture effectively serve as missionaries in another honor-shame culture?...

December 07, 2020

Thoughts on China’s “New” Regulations on Foreigner’s Religious Activity

Joann Pittman, from China Source, recently wrote an excellent article analyzing China’s new regulations concerning...

December 01, 2020

Are fear-power cultures actually fear-peace cultures?

In this post, I want to argue that we have mislabeled " fear-power cultures." Instead,...

November 2020

November 24, 2020

Mentoring Across Individualist and Collectivist Cultures

Mentoring is a major aspect of ministry and missionary labor. In Christian parlance, people often...

November 19, 2020

Tribalism is Here to Stay

Improving people’s economic status does not undermine tribalism. In fact, our goal is not to...

November 17, 2020

Honor, Shame, and the Gospel (New Book!)

In 2016, the first Honor and Shame Conference was held in Wheaton. It brought together...

November 10, 2020

Does the Bible really address policing and black identity?

Looking at the table of contents, I scratched my head trying to imagine how McCaulley...

November 03, 2020

Reading While Black as an Exercise in Contextualization

Prior to the release of Esau McCaulley’s Reading While Black, I had mixed feelings about...

November 02, 2020

Entire Issue of Mission Dei Journal focuses on Honor and Shame

The recent Missio Dei Journal has dedicated an entire issue to the issue of honor...

October 2020

October 28, 2020

Is Church Planting a Biblical Mandate?

I challenged the presenters, “Where in the Bible are we commanded to plant churches?” The...

October 26, 2020

Misreading Scripture with Individualist Eyes

One of the book's authors, Randy Richards, has written another one and it's fantastic. I'm...

October 21, 2020

Approaching Wokeness with Generosity

Is it true that colorblindness is not the goal of these writers? Depends. They do...

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