Is Shame Something to Resist—or to Reconsider? - Lecture 1

What is shame, and why does it shape us so deeply? Shame is a shared human experience, yet we struggle to describe it. In some cases, we sense that we should not feel ashamed, and yet we do. In other cases of moral wrongdoing, a lack of shame, or at least the ability to experience it, is often deemed problematic. To be shameless is viewed as a moral deficiency in such circumstances. Scripture only deepens the complexity. Across both the First and Second Testaments, t...