The Hidden Minds

The Framework

Shame

Repair / Concealment

The instinct to confess and repair, against the instinct to hide and shift the blame.

Every profile lands somewhere between repair and concealment. Use this page to see which figures are pulled most strongly toward each pole, then follow the links down into the stories themselves.

Most toward Repair

  1. 01DavidAnointed and adored, which is how a rooftop became his undoing.
  2. 02SamuelGiven away to the temple as a child, he heard God when the priests had gone deaf.
  3. 03IsaiahUndone by holiness, then sent: here am I, send me.
  4. 04DanielUnshaken before kings and lions; undone only by what he was shown.
  5. 05ThomasHere, doubt is a kind of honesty. He only needed to touch it.
  6. 06NaomiShe came home empty and named God as the hand that emptied her, yet would not leave him.

Most toward Concealment

  1. 01SaulA king who could not bear that anyone might rule better.
  2. 02JudasPeter's failure, with one door he could not imagine opening.
  3. 03CainEnvy at a brother's acceptance, carried all the way to blood.
  4. 04HamanRage at one man who would not bow, scaled up into a plan to erase a people.
  5. 05SarahShe seized the promise that shamed her by waiting, then blamed the servant she used.
  6. 06PilateHe washed his hands of the verdict he had the power to stop.

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