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This past Wednesday, I spoke at the Gospel, Redemption and Shame conference run by the Transforming Shame group. (You can watch the talks on their YouTube […]

f shame is the problem, what do we do about sin? There’s a danger, for those of us wanting to speak God’s word to the shamed, […]

Last Friday, I “went” to a meeting of the Transforming Shame group. This is a collection of researchers, pastors, missionaries and others with an interest in […]

While we were editing and putting together the book, there were a few sections which didn’t make it into the final manuscript. Here’s one of my […]

“What’s going to happen when they realise?” I have just sent in a chapter about shame for a psychology book. I’m not a professional psychologist, and […]

When we’ve done stuff we don’t want the world to see, we hide it away. That makes sense. But what can we do when there’s no […]

It’s been a very exciting week for me. We’re less than two weeks until the book comes out now. I got my hands on my copies […]

We all know shame is a problem. The question is: how do we get rid of it? There’s a lot of people in the missionary world […]

Last July, our family moved countries again - this time, from Australia to the United Kingdom; our third country in five years. I have to admit, it's been quite a hard time. When you're in the midst of transition, you expect to be disoriented, but in my case, I started to see my old struggles with shameproneness come back again.

Last week I was privileged to speak at a conference for Nigerian churches in Europe. I led a seminar about reverse mission, encouraging them to share the Gospel with their white British neighbours. But, well, you know me: somehow, the topic of shame came up.

Someone wrote to me the other day because they really weren't convinced about what I was saying: that our Western society is incredibly sensitive to shame. "Aren't we now getting more and more shameless?" It's a good question, because I think it helps us to understand some of our assumptions about shame.