Citation

Brown, Andrew James. “Addressing Hierarchy, Equality, Shame and Self-Compassion in Liberal, Free-Religious Community.” Blogspot. Addressing Hierarchy, Equality, Shame and Self-Compassion in Liberal, Free-Religious Community, 14 Nov. 2025, https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2025/11/addressing-hierarchy-equality-shame-and.html.

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Unitarian/Yuniterian intuition behind why a free-religious community can't be based on hierarchy. :: Things form an intra-dependent unity.

In his essay "The Faith of Returning-to-One/Kiitsu," how did Shin'ichirō Imaoka describe the relationship between returning-to-one and diversity? :: Respect diversity, but seek common ground and cooperate.

Per Andrew James Brown, in a free-religious community, members should be careful not to turn differences into hierarchy.

Brené Brown's definition of shame. :: Intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging.

Per Andrew James Brown, how does our individual experiences of shaming from hierarchical structures affect building a free-religious community? :: We unintentionally project imagined hierarchies and inequalities into the community.

Per Andrew James Brown, a potent antidote to shame is self-compassion.