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January 2021

January 26, 2021
In this post, I show how the prophets relate shame and salvation in three distinct...
January 19, 2021
How do the sitcoms and movies we watch affect our views about social position, social...
January 12, 2021
The Imago Dei concerns both our bodies and our relationships with others, regardless of gender,...
January 05, 2021
The following six categories signify six ways that theologians and missiologists talk about and do...

December 2020

December 29, 2020
In this post, I want to spotlight a fantastic specifically designed for English speakers who...
December 22, 2020
If you can’t read everything (and you can’t), then read book reviews instead. This is...
December 16, 2020
The narratives surrounding Jesus’ birth make it abundantly apparent that we misjudge what and who...
December 14, 2020
All too often we speak of the incarnation as the action by which God sets...
December 08, 2020
How might Christians from one honor-shame culture effectively serve as missionaries in another honor-shame culture?...
December 07, 2020
Joann Pittman, from China Source, recently wrote an excellent article analyzing China’s new regulations concerning...
December 01, 2020
In this post, I want to argue that we have mislabeled " fear-power cultures." Instead,...

November 2020

November 24, 2020
Mentoring is a major aspect of ministry and missionary labor. In Christian parlance, people often...
November 19, 2020
Improving people’s economic status does not undermine tribalism. In fact, our goal is not to...
November 17, 2020
In 2016, the first Honor and Shame Conference was held in Wheaton. It brought together...
November 10, 2020
Looking at the table of contents, I scratched my head trying to imagine how McCaulley...
November 03, 2020
Prior to the release of Esau McCaulley’s Reading While Black, I had mixed feelings about...
November 02, 2020
The recent Missio Dei Journal has dedicated an entire issue to the issue of honor...

October 2020

October 28, 2020
I challenged the presenters, “Where in the Bible are we commanded to plant churches?” The...
October 26, 2020
One of the book's authors, Randy Richards, has written another one and it's fantastic. I'm...
October 21, 2020
Is it true that colorblindness is not the goal of these writers? Depends. They do...
October 20, 2020
Strachan's comments come from his sincere ambition to help the church be free from enslaving...
October 19, 2020
Missionaries are not robots. They are not machines that receive the Great Commission as data...
October 14, 2020
For years, I’ve heard people stress the priority of “law” over honor and shame when...
October 12, 2020
I get to teach it internationally, cross-culturally, and through a second language! Of course, this...
October 09, 2020
Today, Christianity Today was kind enough to publish an article I co-wrote with my good...
October 06, 2020
There is a movement of God in the New Testament. It is not a church...

September 2020

September 30, 2020
The idea that the Father commits an honor killing against Jesus revolts most people. Yet,...
September 23, 2020
Why did the people who murdered Jesus kill him? What was their motive or mindset?...
September 15, 2020
For the most part, however, Americans have not experienced the pandemic in the same way...
September 08, 2020
Terranova may encourage those interested in or involved in Kingdom Movements to evaluate their expectations...
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