What is the connection between shame and addiction? More than you might suspect. Check out this podcast about shame in Oscar Nominated Movie, A Star is Born.
Dr. Bill Senyard here with another Gospel Rant #109. I am looking at just how much shame is evident in the eight Oscar Best Picture nominated films. Why? I mean who wants to talk about shame. Psychologists will tell you that shame innately hides. Who wants to admit that anyone has shamed us. Or if […]
Bill Senyard here with another Gospel Rant. This time we are looking at the very hot foreign film Roma. It has been nominated for a bunch of Oscars including best foreign film, best director, best actress and best film. It is the artistic darling of this year’s class and so has some buzz. Fortunately, at […]
Bill Senyard here with another Gospel Rant #108. I am looking at just how much shame is evident in the eight Oscar Best Picture nominated films. This is not just an interesting-I hope—psychological study that has little or no bearing on our lives. I am observing that in the recent decade, shame has become epidemic […]
Recent CT article headline “Half of Millennial Christians Say It’s Wrong to Evangelize”. https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2019/february/half-of-millennial-christians-wrong-to-evangelize-barna.html Bombshell right? But honestly, I think that the author buried the lead. Or better, this lead, though explosive, just might cause readers to draw the wrong conclusions. Listen to other very interesting findings in the article that may prove to be […]
The US is secularizing faster than many realize. Nones will surpass evangelicals in 2019. Wow!
Did you see the latest Cigna study on loneliness in the US? It is epidemic in proportion. According to the UCLA Loneliness Scale, Millennials (ages 23-38) score 43.3% Not good at all. Gen Z (18-22) is even worse, a whopping 48.3%. On average? 44% of the US population would be considered “lonely”. Being this lonely […]
