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Guest Joseph Hellerman (Ph.D., UCLA) is Professor of NT Language and Literature at Talbot School of Theology. His publications, both scholarly and practical, examine aspects of honor and shame in the New Testament. This post adapts portions of his latest book, an …

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Evangelicals commonly perceive shame as just subjective and personal, thus negating the theological and objective dimensions of shame. In this recent post (reposted with permission), Jackson Wu offers a more complete view of both guilt and shame. This topic is crucial, since …

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Chris Flanders (Ph.D. Fuller) is Director of the Halbert Institute of Missions at Abilene Christian University. He lived 11 years in Thailand doing church planting, and has published About Face. What does honor & shame look like in your context? Honor/shame is like gravity. It is everywhere, it …

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Westerners are allergic to honor. For example, the United States Constitution (1.9.8) forbids using titles of nobility as honorifics. America passed a law making honoring people illegal (ironic, huh?!).A reader recently emailed me this comment that echoes how most Western Christians think …

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Amazon.com is currently discounting The 3D Gospel by 40%. Individual paperbacks are $5.50, and qualify for free, 2-day shipping! Now is the time to get it yourself, or share with others who might be interested…or, should be interested. I am not …

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The last post explained the differences between individualism and collectivism. Here are three fun images on that topic. The first two are from The Far Side by Gary Larson, and portray two people with individualistic inclinations in collectivistic contexts. This third image …

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Honorshame.com is designed a forum and hub of practical resources for those working in honor-shame contexts.  I’ve noticed that Westerners are generally aware of a culture uniqueness of Muslims or Asians or Latin Americans, but desire to better understand the …

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