{"id":10484,"date":"2016-07-15T12:01:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T16:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=10484"},"modified":"2016-07-15T12:01:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T16:01:31","slug":"humiliation-and-reconciliation-im-at-amcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2016\/07\/humiliation-and-reconciliation-im-at-amcon.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Humiliation and Reconciliation&#8221;: I&#8217;m at AmCon"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>as usual I seem to have kept the most important stuff for the last three paragraphs, but here\u2019s the opener:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My poolside reading this July has been Mary C. Mansfield\u2019s 1995 work <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Humiliation-Sinners-Public-Penance-Thirteenth-Century\/dp\/0801489946\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1468528834&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=The+Humiliation+of+Sinners:+Public+Penance+in+Thirteenth-Century+France&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=theamericonse-20&amp;linkId=77cb489044c921c86b808c3a0c38a927\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Humiliation of Sinners: Public Penance in Thirteenth-Century France<\/a><\/em>. The book illuminates human questions we still have not resolved with stories from civilizational past. You don\u2019t have to care as much about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newliturgicalmovement.org\/2016\/05\/how-medieval-christians-celebrated.html#.V4VnOa6HYfo\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rogation dragon<\/a> as I do to see echoes of Mansfield\u2019s medieval world in our own rituals of public abasement, from reality TV to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/from-gifted-politician-to-punchline\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">political apologies<\/a> to Alcoholics Anonymous\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twelve-step_program#Twelve_Steps\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fifth Step<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/humiliation-and-reconciliation\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>as usual I seem to have kept the most important stuff for the last three paragraphs, but here\u2019s the opener: My poolside reading this July has been Mary C. Mansfield\u2019s 1995 work The Humiliation of Sinners: Public Penance in Thirteenth-Century France. 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