All that we do—parenting, pastoring, farming, playing basketball, carpentry, police work, structural engineering—is done in response to love and shame competing for our attention, wrestling for authority over our memory, emotion, sensations and behaviors. These two dominant affective forces of the universe represent the struggle between good and evil. Within each of us, these two affective states—represented by the presence of the Holy Spirit on one side and our shame attendant on the other—are at war over us and the culture we are making.
