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deSilva’s Classic Book, 2nd Ed.

By HonorShame Posted on November 9, 2022 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments
David deSilva’s book Honor, Patronage, Kinship, and Purity is a sort of cult classic in terms of honor-shame and NT backgrounds. I still remember reading the book on a camping trip in 2006 and thinking on each page, “This makes so …

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Seeking God’s Face—A New HS Book with Practical Reflections

By HonorShame Posted on September 29, 2022 Posted in Uncategorized 2 Comments
  Jackson Wu and Ryan Jensen have authored a new book, Seeking God’s Face: Practical Reflections on Honor and Shame in Scripture. Many people will enjoy the devotional and challenging content. This post is one of the 101 practical reflections.    …

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Developing Communities with Redefined Honor & Shame

By HonorShame Posted on July 6, 2022 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments
Mark Baker’s new book, Centered-Set Church: Discipleship and Community without Judgementalism, will be helpful for anyone interested in developing healthy church communities. The problem is that many churches are really good at drawing lines. As a result, some people learn …

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Defending Shame

By HonorShame Posted on May 25, 2022 Posted in Uncategorized 2 Comments
Guest Dr. Te-Li Lau is an Associate Professor of New Testament at TEDS and author of Defending Shame: Its Formative Power in Paul’s Letters (Baker Academic, 2020), from which this post draws. We live in an age where many consider shame …

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Confronting Lying in HS Cultures

By HonorShame Posted on May 19, 2022 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments
Ajith Fernando has published a recent article titled “Confronting Lying Biblically in Honour- and Shame-Oriented Cultures” (Evangelical Review of Theology, 2022) This a topic many people struggle to address with truth, wisdom, and love. As he has for decades, Ajith …

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John Owen on Salvation from Shame

By HonorShame Posted on May 11, 2022 Posted in Uncategorized 1 Comment
The 17th-century English Puritans had an intense commitment to biblical teaching on sin, salvation, and genuine conversion. They brought their attention to both the guilt-innocence and honor-shame themes in Scripture. Just as for the guilty sinner in the hands of …

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Mercy in Honor-Shame Contexts

By HonorShame Posted on April 13, 2022 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments
Charles R. Harle (MS, Oregon State University) lived and taught ESL for a year in China then for 18 years worked with colleges and universities in China to recruit, train and place native English speaking ESL teachers. The Oxford Languages …

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Hospitality: The Theological Meaning

By HonorShame Posted on February 16, 2022 Posted in Uncategorized 2 Comments
Hospitality—the welcome and provision of guests and strangers—was important in the ancient world. It remains an important aspect of honor-shame cultures. The previous post explained what hospitality accomplishes at a social level. This post introduces the NT teaching on hospitality.  …

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Hospitality: The Social Meaning

By HonorShame Posted on February 9, 2022 Posted in Uncategorized 3 Comments
Hospitality is a significant aspect of honor-shame cultures. Many people know this through personal experience. When you visit someone from a Majority World culture, you receive a lavish and generous welcome. Besides the quality of hospitality, the quantity is also …

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The 3D Gospel in 11 Languages!

By HonorShame Posted on September 22, 2021 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments
The 3D Gospel is now available in 11 different languages. I am grateful for the global interest and eagerness of translators to complete the projects. Most interesting to me is the variety of cover designs. The visual styles reflect how cultures …

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Paul & and the Power of Grace (Book Review)

By HonorShame Posted on September 8, 2021 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments
John Barclay’s Paul & the Gift (Eerdmans, 2015) has been widely hailed as “the most important book” in New Testament studies in 40 years. Now, for the benefit of many, Barclay has published an accessible and practical version—Paul & the …

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An Update about HonorShame.com

By HonorShame Posted on August 25, 2021 Posted in Uncategorized 4 Comments
The tagline for HonorShame.com is “resources for Majority World ministry.” The aim of the website and blog has been to equip people with ideas and resources to better understand the pivotal roles of honor-shame in culture, theology, and ministry. From …

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“Honor” in the New Testament

By HonorShame Posted on March 30, 2021 Posted in Uncategorized 6 Comments Tagged with Honor, NT
The main New Testament word for honor is timē. The word refers to the value of an object. In material transactions, the word means “price” or “a sum (of money).” For example The tomb that Abraham had bought for a …

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Book: Shame-informed Counselling and Psychotherapy

By HonorShame Posted on January 16, 2021 Posted in Uncategorized 1 Comment
Dr. Edmund Ng is the founding president of the Asian Christian Counselors Association. This post stems from his new book Shame-informed Counselling and Psychotherapy: Eastern and Western Perspectives (Routledge, 2020). Whether it is in people-helping or mission outreach, I firmly …

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New Evangelism Training Videos (CRU)

By HonorShame Posted on January 6, 2021 Posted in Uncategorized 1 Comment
In 2018 CRU released “Honor Restored,“a digital tool designed to help you share the good news of Jesus with friends from honor-shame cultures. Since then, the app has been translated into many languages and used widely. The creators now have …

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When to Shame? When to Honor?

By HonorShame Posted on December 9, 2020 Posted in Uncategorized 8 Comments
When should we honor (or shame) someone? This question is complex and has many facets. However, the book Economies of Esteem (OUP, 2004) offers interesting insight into “esteem equilibrium” (pages 126-29). As an economic theory, their model is descriptive, not …

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The Atonement: A Series

By HonorShame Posted on October 29, 2020 Posted in Uncategorized 5 Comments
How does God save? More specifically, how do Jesus’ death and resurrection bring salvation? This is the question of “atonement”—the core of Christian theology. Posts over the next several weeks will explore the theology of atonement in light of honor-shame. …

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New Issue of Missio Dei Journal on Honor-Shame

By HonorShame Posted on October 22, 2020 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments
The academic online publication Missio Dei: A Journal of Missional Theology and Praxis has a recent issue dedicated to honor and shame. Rather than repeating the introductory explanations of honor and shame, the articles apply and explore a rich variety of topics in …

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Perpetua and Felicitas

By HonorShame Posted on August 5, 2020 Posted in Uncategorized 1 Comment Tagged with history
The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas is an early martyr story that subverts and transforms the ancient Greco-Roman notions of honor and shame. Summary The short story narrates the martyrdom of six young catechumens in Carthage, North Africa in the …

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Resources & Webinars

By HonorShame Posted on May 20, 2020 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments
Here are some resources available at HonorShame.com. I try to keep these updated to make honor-shame content accessible.  Webpages Videos—A compilation of teaching videos and short clips.  Blogposts—Hundreds of the blogposts from HonorShame.com, categorized by topics. Recommenced Resources—A list of …

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