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September 2022

September 20, 2022
Today’s guest post comes from Kristin Caynor, Ph.D. student at Trinity College Bristol/University of Aberdeen,...
September 13, 2022
Re-kin-ciliation affirms that no matter what we've suffered or done, our story doesn't begin with...
September 07, 2022
Over the next 3 weeks, each Sunday evening, I will lead a series of webinars...
September 06, 2022
Today's post offers an excerpt adapted from Seeking God's Face. It reflects on the story...

August 2022

August 30, 2022
Our new book shows both the pervasive influence of honor and shame in Scripture and...
August 23, 2022
The biblical vision is not for generic "reconciliation" but re-kin-ciliation. Without it, we can't walk...
August 16, 2022
A former missionary sent me the following email asking for advice. With his permission, I...
August 09, 2022
What's the meaning of the idiom "blood is thicker than water"? We’ve all heard this...
August 02, 2022
People create strategies for dealing with shame. But not all of them are equally beneficial....

July 2022

July 26, 2022
I recall sitting in my car one day, pondering the question, “Why do I continue...
July 19, 2022
I previously asked, “Do we always have to talk about hell when we evangelize?” We...
July 12, 2022
Must we always talk about hell when we evangelize? No. But before you cancel me...
July 06, 2022
Last week, I announced my decision to become the theologian-in-residence for GTN. In that post,...
July 05, 2022
We made the heart-wrenching decision to close the China chapter of our lives. Twenty years...

June 2022

June 27, 2022
A little over a month ago, I was unexpectedly laid off. Completely surprised, I even...
June 21, 2022
The previous posts explained the differences between bounded-set churches, fuzzy-set churches, and center-set churches. Reviewing...
June 14, 2022
Mark Baker’s Centered-Set Church is a long-needed resource for Christians who want to reevaluate fundamentally how...
June 07, 2022
People use three paradigms to define and describe churches. One can intuitively see that the...

May 2022

May 31, 2022
When I wrote the post explaining why I left the SBC and IMB, I intended...
May 24, 2022
While people debate 1 Corinthians 11, all agree that honor and shame play a critical...
May 17, 2022
In 1 Corinthians 11, Paul doesn't rebuke the women. He seeks to protect their honor...
May 10, 2022
Missions is always a cooperative partnership. Which means the solution to dependency isn’t independence. It’s...
May 03, 2022
Paul is worried about the quality of his ministry. This concern trumps the modern fixation...

April 2022

April 26, 2022
But Elliot Clark reminds us of a fundamental motive that underlies all of Paul’s work...
April 19, 2022
How do you explain to a non-believer regarding the restoring honor through shame who went...
April 11, 2022
Last year, we launched a new podcast Doing Theology. Thinking Mission. And it was super...
April 05, 2022
How long will it be before I can say I’m an evangelical without adding some...

March 2022

March 29, 2022
As Christians, the question is not whether we will play but which game we will...
March 22, 2022
I recently read Grace Huang's Chiang Kai-Shek’s Politics of Shame: Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity...
March 15, 2022
Over a hundred years ago, F. C. Bartlett changed the trajectory of memory studies and...
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