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White people were looking at themselves and what their history has wrought, like a domestic animal having its face shoved into its own urine.”
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
this general thrust, of a very Jewish Jesus who was nevertheless opposed to some high-profile features of first-century Judaism, seems to me the most viable one if we are to do justice, not just to the evidence of the synoptic gospels (they, after all, are easy game for any critic who wants to avoid their implications) but more particularly to the
... See moreN. T. Wright • Jesus Victory of God V2: Christian Origins And The Question Of God
Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century (Updated, Annotated): Eleven Biographies in One Volume
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Toxically shamed people tend to become more and more stagnant as life goes on. They live in a guarded, secretive and defensive way. They try to be more than human (perfect and controlling) or less than human (losing interest in life or stagnated in some addictive behavior).
John Bradshaw • Healing the Shame That Binds You
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
Cheryl Clarke • 2 highlights
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A toxically shamed person is divided within himself and must create a false-self cover-up to hide his sense of being flawed and defective. You cannot offer yourself to another person if you do not know who you really are.
John Bradshaw • Healing the Shame That Binds You
One of the most devastating effects of trauma is that people’s biology changes into a biology of threat; this is expressed on multiple levels, in stress hormones, immunology and what the brain selects to pay attention to. The intrinsic reward system changes, as do “attractors”—what turns you on or leaves you cold. As a consequence, traumatized... See more