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May 2022

May 24, 2022

Paul Defends the Status of Women in 1 Corinthians 11

While people debate 1 Corinthians 11, all agree that honor and shame play a critical...

May 17, 2022

Protecting the Honor of Women in 1 Corinthians 11

In 1 Corinthians 11, Paul doesn't rebuke the women. He seeks to protect their honor...

April 2022

April 19, 2022

Non-Believer Asks about Restoring Honor through Shame

How do you explain to a non-believer regarding the restoring honor through shame who went...

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...

November 16, 2021

Winner of the Middle Eastern Women’s Video Contest

Last year, Werner Mischke and I teamed up to offer training that addresses honor and...

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...

March 2021

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 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 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 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...

December 2020

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 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?...

November 2020

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 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 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...

September 2020

September 15, 2020

The Stigma and Shame of COVID-19 around the World

For the most part, however, Americans have not experienced the pandemic in the same way...

August 2020

August 12, 2020

What is “Purity” Actually About?

What is the relationship between purity and the concepts of honor and shame? Understanding purity...

June 2020

June 24, 2020

Using Honor to Challenge Patriarchal Thinking

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

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...

January 2020

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 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 19, 2019

Is Penal Substitution a Western Doctrine?

We take a risk whenever we talk about culture and other such broad ideas. Everyone...

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...