by John D. Pierce | May 10, 2022 | Christian Nationalism, Opinion
Apparently, a Christian group of some sort meets afterhours in one of my favorite lunch spots. Handwritten Bible verses are sketched in various colors onto sheets of paper that are taped to the walls. Alongside these scriptural quotations — like Isaiah’s assurance...
by John D. Pierce | Apr 5, 2022 | Opinion
Well-placed shame is not an easy gift to receive. But it is indeed a gift. Few things are more harmful than the misplaced, abusive shaming of others — or the weighty, unjust self-shaming some people experience. Yet, when rightly applied and humbly received, shame can...
by Ron Rolheiser | Feb 12, 2020 | Opinion
Recently on the popular television program, “Saturday Night Live,” a comedian made a rather colorful wisecrack in response to an answer that Nancy Pelosi had given to a journalist who had accused her of hating the president. Pelosi had stated that, as a Roman...
by Larry Eubanks | Nov 4, 2015 | Opinion
The typical reading of Jesus’ encounter with the woman at the well in John 4:5-30 is faulty. This interpretation presents her as a “loose” woman, a serial divorcee (five times!) who is currently shacking up with a man in an illicit unmarried...
by Guy Sayles | Aug 14, 2015 | Opinion
In her work on the surprising power of vulnerability, Brene Brown identified shame as a primary source of our resistance to the risk of wholehearted openness, the kind of emotional and spiritual openness, which can bring us deeper joy and energize greater...
