Parents and children
All the research tells us, and all school teachers know, that most of the issues children have are simply echoes of their parent’s issues. Of course, no parent wants to hear that. PICTURE: Piron Guillaume/Unsplash Why? Because faced with our faults, we feel shame – and shame shuts us down. What a terrible catch-22. How […]
Shame
There’s something most of us fear more than death. Something we avoid at all costs. Something that makes our very souls shake: Shame. PICTURE: K Mitch Hodge/Unsplash Shame induces trauma in us. Those dark places we don’t want anyone to know about. Failure, divorce, abuse, addiction. How can we show our face again? How can […]
Sight-Seeing: Shame, grace and #STOPtheSTEAL
KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says the “stories we traffic in” play an important role in shaping how we see ourselves…
Family violence (II)
While we do as a society need to come out loud and strong against family violence, one of my fears is that it will just push it further underground. PICTURE: Steve Halama/Unsplash (picture posed by a model) The perpetrators will put more pressure on their partners to hide it. We need room for redemption. If you […]
Three quarters of American churchgoers agree US is a “better country than most”, survey finds
Three quarters of American churchgoers agree that the US is a “better country than most other countries” but the same percentage say there are some things about the US today which make them feel ashamed of it. Those are among the findings of new research based on several surveys conducted last year by Barna in partnership […]