{"id":60201,"date":"2017-05-23T18:01:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T22:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60201"},"modified":"2017-05-23T18:48:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T22:48:52","slug":"ct-shame-guilt-and-fear-what-1000-americans-avoid-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60201","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Shame, Guilt, and Fear: What 1,000 Americans Avoid Most"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many Americans are more worried about their reputation than their conscience.<\/p>\n<p>They worry less about guilt and fear and more about avoiding shame, according to a new study from Nashville-based LifeWay Research.<\/p>\n<p>Shame has become particularly powerful in American culture in the internet age, said Scott McConnell, executive director of LifeWay Research. A single mistake or embarrassing moment posted on social media can ruin a person\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s our biggest cultural fear? Shame,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat\u2019s surprising is not that personal freedom, ambition, and doing the right thing are valued by Americans. It\u2019s that risk to our reputation is what matters most.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/gleanings\/2017\/may\/shame-guilt-fear-what-1000-americans-avoid-most-lifeway.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Americans are more worried about their reputation than their conscience. They worry less about guilt and fear and more about avoiding shame, according to a new study from Nashville-based LifeWay Research. Shame has become particularly powerful in American culture<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60201\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,175,440,435,184,439,108,109,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-preaching-homiletics","category-religion-culture","category-sociology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60203,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60201\/revisions\/60203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}