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Work & Vocation in Honor-Shame Cultures

By HonorShame Posted on September 3, 2014 Posted in Honor, Spirituality 4 Comments Tagged with ethnicity, Honor, vocation, work

This post was originally published at the Washington Institute‘s Missio blog. Is our work sacred? Does God “see” what you and I do from 8am – 5pm? Beyond the paycheck, do our jobs mean something? In our ever secularized world, contemporary Christians …

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How Paying Money Honors (and Shames)

By HonorShame Posted on August 27, 2014 Posted in Culture, Honor, Ministry, Missiology, Relationships, Spirituality 1 Comment Tagged with Honor, money, payment

Does Paying Money Honor or Dishonor?In 1969, the St. Louis Cardinals traded their All-Star center fielder, Curt Flood, to the Phillies. During the days before free agency, MLB players were owned by one team for life. Instead of reporting to …

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Another FREE BOOK, and HS Missiology

By HonorShame Posted on August 15, 2014 Posted in Ministry, Missiology, Spirituality, Theology No Comments Tagged with dignification, Honor, missiology, promo, shame

WIN ANOTHER FREE BOOK! We are doing one more promotional book giveaway. Last week’s winners of Misinterpreting Scripture were Clive of Chicago, who learned of @HonorShame on Twitter from Mike in Long Beach. This week’s book is Shame Interrupted: How God …

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6 Places Honor & Shame Hide in the Bible

By HonorShame Posted on July 31, 2014 Posted in NT, OT, Shame, Theology 8 Comments Tagged with bible, metaphors, narratives, theology

Here is something we have all experienced: You are looking to buy a new car, and begin eyeing (for example) the Toyota Corolla. Now that you are thinking about buying a Corolla, they begin popping everywhere on the road! Where …

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How Authoritarian Leaders Could Lead

By HonorShame Posted on July 23, 2014 Posted in Culture, Spirituality 8 Comments Tagged with Honor, leadership, power

Guest blogger Arley Loewen (Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Studies) has lived in Afghanistan and published several books, including a short novel, where he explores honor-shame themes. He now directs an international media project and teaches leadership seminars, through which he analyzes …

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Why Shame is a HUGE Problem

By HonorShame Posted on July 16, 2014 Posted in Honor, Relationships, Sin, Theology 1 Comment Tagged with dishonor, Honor, Romans, sin

Imagine the following scenarios: You have labored for two years developing an English program to reach the community. When your director visits, he dismisses the purpose and value of the English ministry. You look out your front window, and see two neighbor …

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What is God’s Mission? Honor as Missio Dei

By HonorShame Posted on July 8, 2014 Posted in Honor, Ministry, Missiology, Theology No Comments Tagged with Honor, missio Dei, mission, salvation, theology

Since the 1950’s Christian missiology has used the phrase missio Dei (Latin for the ‘sending/mission of God’) to frame God’s missional, saving activity in the world. What is the missio Dei in scripture? How exactly is God working to save people? Honorification is missio Dei. …

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The Geography of Shame: East vrs. West

By HonorShame Posted on July 2, 2014 Posted in Culture, Shame 1 Comment

When I teach on honor-shame dynamics in ministry and the Bible, people often comment, “You speak about shame in other cultures, but I think shame is a big issue here in America.” Westerners seem to feel decreasingly less guilt, and …

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Why Western Theology Neglects HonorShame

By HonorShame Posted on June 25, 2014 Posted in Culture, Honor, Theology 6 Comments Tagged with culture, Honor, theology, worldview

The themes of honor and shame are woven throughout scripture, and most of the world frames life in terms of honor and shame, yet they are virtually absent in our contemporary theology, This gap in Western Protestant theology is (partially) …

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HonorShame in LA & DC, July 2014

By HonorShame Posted on June 23, 2014 Posted in Ministry No Comments Tagged with training

In July, I’ll be on both coasts facilitating discussions on HonorShame, join us if you are in the area. “HonorShame Convo for Happy Hour” in Long Beach, CA, July 1 @ 2pm. An informal training and discussion for Christians working among …

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Worshiping God For Salvation From Shame

By HonorShame Posted on June 12, 2014 Posted in Culture, Ministry, Shame 2 Comments Tagged with culture, shame, worship

God has saved us from shame unto honor, we are called to worship our Great Patron and Exalt-er. But how exactly? Most public worship and liturgies emphasize confession of transgressions and assurance of pardon/forgiveness, perpetuating the guilt-innocence theological paradigm. But …

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The Audience – Lk 15 (4)

By HonorShame Posted on June 4, 2014 Posted in NT, Spirituality, Theology No Comments Tagged with Jesus, NT, prodigal son

As a piece of literature, the parable is rather strange…it has no ending! What happened with the older son? … the village celebration? …the family estate? We don’t know. The previous posts in the Lk 15 series are: The Prodigal, The …

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The Brother – Lk 15 (3)

By HonorShame Posted on May 29, 2014 Posted in NT, Shame, Spirituality, Theology 1 Comment Tagged with Jesus, NT, prodigal son

But just then, the older brother heard the music in the fields and walked into the village to investigate. The older brother asked a servant about the music, but getting him to explain was like pulling teeth. “Well sir…well sir… …

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The Father – Lk 15 (2)

By HonorShame Posted on May 26, 2014 Posted in NT, Relationships, Shame, Theology No Comments Tagged with Honor, love, NT, prodigal son, shame

Just as the community surrounded the younger son, the father came out of his house, jumped the hedge, and sprinted through the village, yelling, “My son! My son!” Everybody watched in shock. Everybody eyes were on the father now, not …

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The Prodigal – Lk 15 (1)

By HonorShame Posted on May 22, 2014 Posted in Culture, NT, Shame, Theology 3 Comments Tagged with love, NT, prodigal son, shame

A respected man was blessed with two sons. One day, his younger son says to him, “Father, give me the share of the property coming to me.” The father (should have) said, “WHAT ?!#?! I’m as good as dead to …

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HS in the blogosphere

By HonorShame Posted on May 14, 2014 Posted in Theology 2 Comments Tagged with blogs, contextualization, gender, vocation

This week I encountered 3 blogs exploring HonorShame realities in relation to vocation, Asian-American theology, and gender mutuality. They all got me thinking in new directions for developing a truly Christian theology for honor-shame contexts. Enjoy the reading, and join …

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How Stories Change Honor Codes (III)

By HonorShame Posted on May 6, 2014 Posted in Culture, Ministry, Missiology, Relationships, Spirituality No Comments Tagged with discipleship, honor code, narrative, story

The two previous posts “How Stories Change Honor Codes” (here and here) examine how narratives can subvert and reorient a person’s honor code. We talked about honor codes in the general and abstract. How can they, on the whole, be reoriented …

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How Stories Change Honor Codes (II)

By HonorShame Posted on April 29, 2014 Posted in Ministry, Spirituality No Comments Tagged with discipleship, honor code, narrative, story, worldview

A “code of honor” or “honor code” is the socially-shared value system defining what and who is honorable or shameful. (In American English, ‘honor code‘ typically refers to an pledge of academic honesty and integrity, but I use the term more philosophical and ethically, …

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