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November 2016

November 07, 2016
ChinaSource recently posted an interview between Joann Pittman, Sam Chan and I. I am grateful...
November 03, 2016
I'll excited to let you know that Missiology published my newest article this month and it appears...
November 02, 2016
What qualifies a person to be a pastor? Are you aware of a controversial translation...

October 2016

October 25, 2016
In my last post, I showed one way to apply the most important tool (in...
October 20, 2016
My aunt is attracted black men. That means I now have two black cousins related...
October 19, 2016
I recently realized that I have never shared on this blog what is probably the...
October 16, 2016
The Chinese government is serious about implementing their recently announced religious guidelines. This past week,...
October 13, 2016
Here is a must read for anyone ministering in honor-shame contexts. Jayson Georges and Mark...
October 12, 2016
Over the past few months, I posted 4 short training videos (available on my media...
October 04, 2016
This post concludes the series by giving three suggestions to apply the observations made in...

September 2016

September 29, 2016
This post highlights a few observations that will help the church use honor & shame...
September 28, 2016
If the LGBT movement has anything, it’s an ironic sense of shame. I’m not talking...
September 21, 2016
In order to teach the Bible and share the gospel, we do best to understand...
September 14, 2016
Contextualization requires character more than competence. Too few people talk about this. As a result,...
September 13, 2016
As I've said many times before, the Chinese church needs more teaching in the original...
September 08, 2016
Previously, I described the distress I felt at a recent SABS conference. No doubt, hearing...
September 06, 2016
Working in strong honor-shame cultures should make us rethink assumptions about leading others. For example,...

August 2016

August 31, 2016
Here's the 4th installment in my ongoing video series. This training video explains various ways...
August 30, 2016
Two recent articles well illustrate some important dynamics within contemporary Chinese culture. They further show...
August 25, 2016
Being a pastor is hard. Crossing a culture as a missionary is hard. Being a...
August 23, 2016
The male students in my class agreed, “The Bible says that men are more important...
August 18, 2016
Here are a few highlights from the latest issue of Themelios for those interested on...
August 16, 2016
If you want to see an example of good contextualization, read Gregg Ten Elshof’s Confucius...
August 09, 2016
This post introduces you to Gregg Ten Elshof’s Confucius for Christians by responding to (what...
August 03, 2016
The Bible not only gives us our message; it should shape our methods. In One...

July 2016

July 27, 2016
Do you have an ethical ministry strategy? I’m guessing most people have never asked this...
July 21, 2016
This short video explains the meaning of “honor and shame,” highlighting key themes are mark...
July 20, 2016
How did honor shape evangelicalism in the American south before the civil war? Robert Elder...
July 14, 2016
I'm very grateful to Southeastern Theological Review for publishing a review of One Gospel for...
July 13, 2016
People wonder why the rest of the world gets angry at Western countries. In the...
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