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July 2020

July 07, 2020

How Individualism Spreads Racism

Individualism is a key value in American white culture. By “individualism,” I don’t merely refer...

June 2020

June 30, 2020

How God Uses Disability for the Sake of Global Missions

“How does honor and shame relate to people with disabilities?” That was the first time...

June 24, 2020

Using Honor to Challenge Patriarchal Thinking

Understanding how women reinforce patriarchal thinking is one key component to combat patriarchy within society...

June 10, 2020

When Women Reinforce Patriarchy

Christians talk about patriarchy far less than those outside the church. The justification for such...

May 2020

May 27, 2020

The Actual Name for Trump’s Logical Fallacy… “Modus Morons” (Seriously)

In the last post, I mentioned Donald Trump’s comment that he considered it is a...

May 25, 2020

Are high infection numbers a badge of honor?

Comedians are fretting the possibility of Trump not winning reelection. He gives them so much...

May 19, 2020

“It’s only sin if people find out”

A common objection emerges when I speak of using honor and shame in evangelism and...

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...

April 21, 2020

How Ancient Greeks and Jews Used Shame

There is an internal logic to shame. This is one reason Te-Li Lau writes Part 1...

April 14, 2020

An Overview of Te-Li Lau’s Defending Shame

I might have found my new favorite honor-shame book. The title of Te-Li Lau’s new...

April 09, 2020

Coronavirus Exposes the Cost of Individualistic Christianity

The coronavirus has exposed both the contradiction and the cost of popular, individualistic Christianity. Ironically,...

April 01, 2020

Fame-Shame Culture and Social Media

How is fame different to honor? This post explores how fame culture has evolved over...

March 2020

March 25, 2020

Public Shaming During the Coronavirus

Who said Westerners didn’t understand how shame can be harnessed for good? The BBC’s recent...

March 13, 2020

Honor, Shame, and the Coronavirus

Honor and shame dynamics affect every aspect of social life. This includes the current coronavirus...

March 05, 2020

What you can learn from #honortheology

A few years back, I began a series on Twitter using the hashtag #honortheology. It...

March 03, 2020

Women Speaking at the 2020 Honor-Shame Conference

The upcoming 2020 honor-shame conference will feature an array of extraordinary women from diverse backgrounds....

January 2020

January 29, 2020

Review of Ministering in Patronage Cultures

In this post, we take a closer look at Jayson Georges' Ministering in Patronage Cultures:...

January 28, 2020

China’s “Biblical” Appeal to Shame Against the Coronavirus

In response to the coronavirus, China warns that people who care too much about the...

January 22, 2020

Training Leaders in Honor and Shame Cultures

Leadership is context dependent. Certainly, various principles for leadership span cultural settings; however, they might...

January 15, 2020

Honor, Shame and Hospitality when Christ is King

Joshua Jipp, NT Professor at TEDS, will be a workshop leader at the upcoming Honor-Shame...

January 07, 2020

An Opportunity for Honor and Shame Collaboration

Honor and shame have significant implications for both theology and missiology. This point helps to...

December 2019

December 18, 2019

Honor and Shame in the Trump Impeachment

The Trump impeachment inquiry highlights several dimensions of honor and shame as well as their...

December 11, 2019

Why Westerners Don’t See Shame as a Virtue

Why does shame have a bad name in the West, yet Confucian societies regard shame...

December 04, 2019

3 Features of Moral Shame

This is Part Two of my "interview" highlighting key ideas from Bongrae Seok’s Moral Psychology of...

November 2019

November 25, 2019

When being shameless is shameful

Have you ever noticed the peculiar way we talk about shame? We don’t want people...

November 13, 2019

The Relationship between Honor, Shame, and Penal Substitutionary Atonement

Sooner or later, someone will ask the question. Whether at a conference of in personal...

October 2019

October 10, 2019

There is no “honor and shame gospel”

Some people claim that a weakness of the honor-shame movement is “its willingness to adapt...

October 08, 2019

Honor and Shame Should Not Control Biblical Interpretation

This series answers common objections people have to honor and shame as they relate to...

September 2019

September 04, 2019

Open Letter of Gratitude for 9Marks’ Response

I just finished reading your thoughtful and careful response. Thank you for your article. You...

September 03, 2019

How 9Marks Can Rise Above Shameful Theological Debates

This series corrects the false impressions conveyed in the 9Marks article. It also spotlights ways...