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April 2020

April 01, 2020
How is fame different to honor? This post explores how fame culture has evolved over...

March 2020

March 30, 2020
Our current circumstances resemble the experience of living cross-culturally. So, this post suggests 7 ways...
March 25, 2020
Who said Westerners didn’t understand how shame can be harnessed for good? The BBC’s recent...
March 23, 2020
What can we do while locked up in my home? This post suggests 6 ways...
March 18, 2020
People often equate the gospel and justification by faith. They claim the gospel is a...
March 17, 2020
The United States has long served as a patron to smaller countries. China is in...
March 13, 2020
Honor and shame dynamics affect every aspect of social life. This includes the current coronavirus...
March 11, 2020
Here's an article worth talking about around the coffee machine. The following introduces an article...
March 05, 2020
A few years back, I began a series on Twitter using the hashtag #honortheology. It...
March 03, 2020
The upcoming 2020 honor-shame conference will feature an array of extraordinary women from diverse backgrounds....

February 2020

February 26, 2020
This final post offers a few practical tools based on The Symphony of Mission. Jim...
February 19, 2020
God’s mission is akin to a symphony, having multiple parts coordinated in harmony for the...
February 12, 2020
I have to read Goheen and Mullins' newest book, The Symphony in Mission, in chunks,...
February 05, 2020
A few people have asked, “What do you think about The Gospel Coalition’s review of...
February 03, 2020
It’s a truism to say war and suffering expose the best and worst about human...

January 2020

January 29, 2020
In this post, we take a closer look at Jayson Georges' Ministering in Patronage Cultures:...
January 28, 2020
In response to the coronavirus, China warns that people who care too much about the...
January 22, 2020
Leadership is context dependent. Certainly, various principles for leadership span cultural settings; however, they might...
January 15, 2020
Joshua Jipp, NT Professor at TEDS, will be a workshop leader at the upcoming Honor-Shame...
January 13, 2020
If you enjoyed it, I'd be grateful if you'd nominate Reading Romans with Eastern Eyes for...
January 07, 2020
Honor and shame have significant implications for both theology and missiology. This point helps to...

December 2019

December 30, 2019
Nicholas Romanin reviews a new book, Grace to the City: Studies in the Gospel from...
December 23, 2019
John 3:16 is the first verse most Christians memorize. It can also be misleading, especially...
December 18, 2019
The Trump impeachment inquiry highlights several dimensions of honor and shame as well as their...
December 11, 2019
Christianity Today just named the winners of its 2020 book awards. Let me just say.......
December 11, 2019
Why does shame have a bad name in the West, yet Confucian societies regard shame...
December 04, 2019
This is Part Two of my "interview" highlighting key ideas from Bongrae Seok’s Moral Psychology of...

November 2019

November 25, 2019
Have you ever noticed the peculiar way we talk about shame? We don’t want people...
November 19, 2019
We take a risk whenever we talk about culture and other such broad ideas. Everyone...
November 19, 2019
It's theology conference season! This week begins the annual conference of the Evangelical Theological Society...
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