Book Reviewed: Benjamin Merkle and Adrianne Cheek Miles, Christian Academic Writing: Twelve Practices and Principles for Becoming a Successful Writer (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2024). Journal of Christian Teaching Practice, Volume 11, 2024 (January – December) Reviewed by: Julie Borkin Reviewer Affiliation: Taylor University Total pages: 158 ISBN-13: 9781540965998 In Christian Academic Writing: Twelve Practices and Principles for …
Integratio Press Welcomes New Executive Editor, Diane Badzinski
Integratio Press, the CCSN’s imprint, is pleased to announce the addition of a new executive editor to our growing community of editors: Dr. Diane Badzinski (See Integratio Press Editorial Team) Diane M. Badzinski is Professor of Communication and Chair of the Department of Communication at Colorado Christian University. She has authored several books on relationships. Family Communication and the Christian Faith: An Introduction and Exploration (with …
Quote of the Week, An Appetite for Grace, by Eugene Peterson
“A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she, acquires an appetite for the world of grace.” –Eugene Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society
A Prayer for Communication Blessings, by Clement of Rome
A Prayer for [Communication] Blessings May God, who seeth all things, and who is the Ruler of all spirits and the Lord of all flesh—who chose our Lord Jesus Christ and us through Him to be a peculiar people—grant to every soul that calleth upon His glorious and holy Name, faith, peace, patience, long-suffering, self-control, purity, and sobriety, to the …
New Book Now Available, Awakening the Quieter Virtues: Shouting Softly in a Noisy World, by Gregory Spencer
Awakening the Quieter Virtues: Shouting Softly in a Noisy World Available Now Author: Gregory Spencer Foreword: Annalee R. Ward ISBN paperback: 978-1-959685-15-9 ISBN ebook: 978-1-959685-16-6 Total Pages: 248 Price: $22.00 (purchase) [Return to Integratio Press] DESCRIPTION In this updated and expanded version of the author’s earlier offering on the subject matter, we are treated to more timeless insights and expressions …
Quote of the Week, Writing as an Antidote to Frustration, by C.S. Lewis
“Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.” —The Letters of C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves (1914-1963) (30 May 1916), para. 7, p. 104. Edited by Walter Hooper (New York: Collier/Macmillan, 1986).
Integratio Press Welcomes New Executive Editor, Denise Edwards-Neff
Integratio Press, the CCSN’s imprint, is pleased to announce the addition of a new executive editor to our growing community of editors: Dr. Denise Edwards Neff (See Integratio Press Editorial Team) Denise Edwards-Neff has held administrative and faculty positions at Azusa Pacific University, Pepperdine University, Indiana Wesleyan University, and the University of Indianapolis, and is currently Affiliate Faculty and Expatriate Recruiter at LCC …
Book Review, The Flourishing Teacher: Vocational Renewal for a Sacred Profession
Book Reviewed: Christina Bieber Lake (2020), The Flourishing Teacher: Vocational Renewal for a Sacred Profession (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press) Journal of Christian Teaching Practice, Volume 11, 2024 (January – December) Reviewed By: Donna M. Elkins Reviewer Affiliation: Campbellsville University Total Pages: 224 ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-5284-0 No one in higher education needs to be cautioned that we are in a …
A Morning Supplicatory Prayer, by St. John Chrysostom, 344-407 AD
Lord, deprive me not of Your heavenly joys. Lord, deliver me from eternal torments. Lord, if I have sinned in mind or thought, in word or deed, forgive me. Lord, deliver me from all ignorance, forgetfulness, cowardice and stony insensibility. Lord, deliver me from every temptation. Lord, enlighten my heart which evil desires have darkened. Lord, I being human have …
Column entry, “Christian Family Practice: Cultivating Prayer,” with Jonathan Pettigrew and Diane Badzinski
Column: Let’s Talk Family: Conversations about Faith and Family Flourishing Column entry: “Christian Family Practice: Cultivating Prayer” By Jonathan Pettigrew, PhD, Arizona State University; Diane Badzinski, PhD, Colorado Christian University Column Description: Let’s Talk Family: Conversations about Faith and Family Flourishing is a monthly column offering a space to consider research-based, biblically-sound practices for family communication. We all have families. …