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March 2025

March 04, 2025

Pride Economy: When Passion Becomes Workplace Exploitation

What is a Pride Economy? In Stolen Pride, Arlie Hochschild shares how powerful dynamics of...

February 2025

February 04, 2025

Tribal is a book worth reading!

In Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together, Michael...

November 2024

November 26, 2024

Honor and Shame in Shakespeare’s Othello

In this second post in the series, we look at ways that honor and shame...

November 12, 2024

Honor and Shame in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Over the years, I’ve tried showing how Western cultures care about honor and shame. These...

November 14, 2023

Status Is a Fundamental Desire with Practical Benefits

Status is the hierarchy resulting from how we value (appraise) differences. A fundamental desire, status...

March 2023

March 16, 2023

The Missiological Use of Hebrews in African American Christianity

Reading Hebrews Missiologically was just released last month. It's unlike so many other missions books. Here's...

February 2023

February 07, 2023

Listening, Lived Experience, and Mutuality in a Just Mission

My review of A Just Mission was provocative but needed. The response has been overwhelmingly...

July 2022

July 05, 2022

Chinese Christians Have Faith in the Wilderness. Will We?

We made the heart-wrenching decision to close the China chapter of our lives. Twenty years...

June 2022

June 21, 2022

Shame and Status in Centered Set Churches

The previous posts explained the differences between bounded-set churches, fuzzy-set churches, and center-set churches. Reviewing...

June 14, 2022

Being and Becoming a Centered-Set Church

Mark Baker’s Centered-Set Church is a long-needed resource for Christians who want to reevaluate fundamentally how...

June 07, 2022

Three Basic Paradigms that Define Church

People use three paradigms to define and describe churches. One can intuitively see that the...

March 2022

March 22, 2022

My review of Chiang Kai-Shek’s Politics of Shame

I recently read Grace Huang's Chiang Kai-Shek’s Politics of Shame: Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity...

March 08, 2022

The Cost and Reward of People Movements

As a missions community, we’re ready to strike gold. But we’re poorly equipped for the...

March 01, 2022

Professionalism versus the Holy Spirit in the Work of Missions?

My concern here is not for missionaries. It’s for the lost. Our effectiveness is damaged...

February 2022

February 22, 2022

Bigger, Better, and Faster Are Not Essential for Church Planting

While I can't entirely explain the problem, the solution has to place less emphasis on...

February 08, 2022

My Top Recommendations for Honor and Shame Books

I often get asked for book recommendations from people who want to learn about honor...

February 01, 2022

Can We improve How We Play Status Games? Here are 8 Ideas

Can we improve the way we play status games? Yes, we can! This post offers...

January 2022

January 25, 2022

The Insatiable Search for Status

How do status games practically affect our lives? Will Storr offers an array of answers....

January 18, 2022

Status Games are Inherently Groupish

Seeking status occurs among individuals; yet, status competitions also arise within communities and between communities

January 11, 2022

We all play the status game. How do you play?

A new book just became my favorite book on the topic of honor and shame....

November 2021

November 30, 2021

How do Jesus and Paul talk about “outsiders”?

Some of the richest insights when interpreting the Bible come when readers attend to its...

May 2021

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 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....

December 2020

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...

November 2020

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...

October 2020

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...

April 2020

April 28, 2020

How Paul Uses Shame in His Letters

The goal of Te-Li Lau’s "Defending Shame" is to explore Paul’s use of shame for the...