Defending Shame

This is a shorter version of a special feature in my free weekly newsletter.

We think of shame as destructive, manipulative, and toxic. And it can be all those things. But shame can also be a powerful and healthy part of our moral formation. In this fascinating conversation, Kevin DeYoung talks to Te-Li Lau, a professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, about his recent book Defending Shame: It’s Formative Power in Paul’s Letters. Together, Kevin and Te-Li explore the pervasiveness of our therapeutic assumptions, the central theme of shame throughout the Bible, and good and bad ways to think about shame in our own lives. Watch on YouTube.


Here's more of what I'm enjoying heading into the weekend:

• Podcast: Defending Shame with Te-Li Lau (Kevin DeYoung's Life and Books and Everything Podcast)

• Resource: Knowing God: A Reader’s Guide to a Christian Classic (Sam Storms/DesiringGod)

• Article: If We Are Kings and Queens, by Faith Chang

• Video: Five Reasons for Missional Singing (John Piper/Getty Sing! Conference)

• Book: Refractions: A Journey of Faith, Art, and Culture, by Makoto Fujimura (NavPress)