Introduction The resource most to our society’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic is empathic relationships. The key to the Christian faith is the shaping of the relational self by establishing empathic relationships with God and others. Paradoxically, the coronavirus pandemic… Read More ›
Introduction Bearing witness to suffering is an empathic recognition of others’ pain with God’s compassion. The narratives of Julian of Norwich and Howard Thurman provide spiritual resources for the practice of empathic witnessing. Suffering is different from pain because suffering… Read More ›
In his masterful work Slavery in the Late Roman Word, AD 275-425, Kyle Harper’s main achievement consists in the presentation of the rich source material for Roman slavery in the “long fourth century (AD 275-425).” This contribution allows a new… Read More ›
Honor and shame as a pair of cultural lens were first introduced to America as something non-American through the research of the anthropologist Ruth Benedict in her book The Chrysanthmum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture, published in 1946,… Read More ›
Introduction[1] Forgiveness helps us to mend the unwanted brokenness in our lives. Many people feel burdened by guilt and grief over what they have done or failed to do, ultimately desiring forgiveness either from themselves or from others. As Anthony… Read More ›
c-2. Application of the cinematic narrative flow for the sermon structure The preacher now has come up with a basic cinematic sermon idea, theme, or flow from the first stage of the cinematic socio-spiritual hermeneutic. At this second stage, the… Read More ›
V. Scene #4: Introduction to a Cinemate Homiletic Now, what exactly is a cinemate homiletic? What kind of preaching is that? How are we going to approach film in creating a cinemate homiletic and how are we going to… Read More ›
I didn’t want you to enjoy the film. I wanted you to look very closely at your own soul[1] Sam Peckinpah (Director) I. Hook The cinema or pop film[2] has now become “the cathedral of the [twenty-first] century.”[3] Among its… Read More ›
In the setting image, the front of one apple has the clear surface on the table stage, otherwise the mirror reflected apple could not be solid surface such as bitten shape. The apple symbolizes human minds that wish to follow… Read More ›
Recent United States Presidential Election and the Nasty Woman In American culture, intelligent women who voice their opinions and stand up for justice are labeled bitches. They are called “nasty” in Presidential elections and threatened with jail. Once a woman… Read More ›
