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What do You Think?
 For thirty years, secular psychologists, the teachers unions and school administrators, along with others have been trying to revise or dismantle all our notions about guilt and shame. Are there other explanations you can think of for the breakdown of personal responsibility and the loss of shame in our North American culture?
There has been a tendency for Christians in our day to run from the image of the cross. The idea of the death, resurrection, and blood of Jesus are considered unnecessary, primitive, or simply tacky by believers in many modern churches. Instead of being ashamed of the existence of sin, even in their own hearts, these Christians have decided that we should be ashamed of the doctrines of our faith, or of the 'presumptuous' claim that Jesus is the one and only way to God. How would you reconcile these ideas with the unequivocal claims of Christ?
Secularists and Christians alike are horrified at the escalation of violence and evil in the world, forming a kind of common ground for discussion of the consequences of human behavior. How can we help people better understand the role that faith in Jesus Christ can play in our individual lives and the benefits this faith brings to society?
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