Did you know that honor even affects how people respond to Covid? While you might have guessed as much, explaining how is more difficult. Read more
Did you know that honor even affects how people respond to Covid? While you might have guessed as much, explaining how is more difficult. Read more
Does the Bible clearly present a distinct, normative vision of masculinity and femininity, one that transcends every culture and age? Read more
Toxic gendering is when we embrace some fruit of the Spirit as primarily masculine or primarily feminine rather than being fully human. Read more
This post prepares us to answer the question, “When do masculinity and femininity become toxic?” (discussed in part 2). It highlights some challenges we face in defining masculinity and femininity. Among them is the tendency to confuse what is cultural normal with what is biblical normative Read more
In this post, I explain the interrelationship between 4 types of shame––shame as sensitivity, social, psychological, and sacred. Read more
The difficulty is not that Ten Elshof uses “shame” in an odd, unprecedented way. Rather, he reminds us of a basic idea underlying all definitions of shame. Read more
Rather than insist that shame is toxic, we should work to understand when shame is and is not healthy, then develop tools to regulate (not eliminate) shame. Read more
Today begins season 1 of “Doing Theology. Thinking Mission.”, the podcast that brings theology and mission into closer conversation. Read more
This post gives an overview of the final two stages of the contextualization process–– finding biblical meaning and cultural significance. Read more
In my previous post, I showed how the Bible and culture are inextricably tied together. Misunderstanding that relationship undermines the prospects of doing contextualization in a biblically faithful and culturally meaningful way. This post highlights a few key points from (what I consider to be) the most important chapter in One Gospel for All Nations. The discussion there deserved a lengthier explanation, but, alas, I had a word limit to keep. NOTE: The picture above is different from that seen in my… Read more
