Description: Our media choices shape us. The shaping involves more than the discrete messages that come through TV, Podcasts, and Social Media, but include the media platforms and channels we use to connect with others. You’ve heard, “the medium is the message.” How does the particular medium we use to connect with others affect our spiritual formation, our relationships, and …
Column entry, Great Questions Strengthen Family Connections, by Jonathan Pettigrew and Diane Badzinski
Column: Let’s Talk Family: Conversations about Faith and Family Flourishing Column entry: Great Questions Strengthen Family Connections 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. …
Column entry, Keeping the Faith (as a Graduate Student), by Lakelyn Taylor
Keeping the Faith in Grad School February entry: “Quitting and Keeping the Faith” Column Description: Writing as a Christian who is a doctoral student at a public institution of higher learning, Lakelyn reflects on how graduate students can maintain their faith in graduate school when it seems hard to do. This column is not about how to “beat” the “other” …
Column entry, “Failing to Call the Audience to Action,” by Brandon Knight
Column Title: In Search of Right Words: Saint Augustine, Rhetoric, and Preaching By Brandon Knight, Ph.D. William Carey University February: “Failing to Call the Audience to Action” Column Description: Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, in his work On Christian Doctrine, illustrates the important relationship between preaching and rhetoric. Even in his day, many questioned what use the church could possibly …
Column entry, “Let’s Talk Family,” by Jonathan Pettigrew and Diane Badzinski
Column: Let’s Talk Family: Conversations about Faith and Family Flourishing Column entry: Let’s Talk about Love 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. And …
Vlog entry, “Better Than Flowers or Chocolate,” by Stephanie Bennett
Description: Join Stephanie as she reflects on our recent Valentine’s Day celebration from a different perspective. . . To understand and be understood is a beautiful thing. Giving another the gift of listening to their story is better than chocolates, even better than flowers! You can show your friend or mate that you care enough to listen carefully to really …
Column entry, “Ashes and Light, Children and Lightness,” by John Hatch
Column title: Crossed My Mind: Thoughts on Culture and Communication Column entry: “Ashes and Light, Children and Lightness” By John Hatch, Ph.D. Eastern University (retired) CCSN Senior Fellow Column Description: As Christians, we are called to have the mind of Christ. This goes against the grain of our social and cultural conditioning. We seek personal or political advancement; Christ seeks …
Devotional, “Impression Management: What My Things Say about Me,” by Donna Elkins
Impression Management: What My Things Say about Me I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself and planted vineyards. I made gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. I made reservoirs to water groves of flourishing trees. Ecclesiastes 2:4–6 (NIV) Two examples recently inspired me to think about how we choose the items we …
Devotional, “Assume the Best First,” by Lakelyn Taylor
Assume the Best First Lakelyn Taylor University of Central Florida The one who searches for what is good finds favor, but if someone looks for trouble it will come to him. (Proverbs 11:27) I received news one evening that a good friend of my father’s had died rather unexpectedly. As soon as I heard the news, I called my dad …
Christian Scholar’s Review Blog, Whither Christian Civility?, by John Hatch
Enjoy this piece by John B. Hatch (PhD, Regent University), recently retired from Eastern University as Professor of Communication Studies. John currently serves as Senior Fellow for the Christianity & Communication Studies Network. In this Christian Scholar’s Review blog, John reviews Integratio Press’ recent book, Humility and Hospitality: Changing the Christian Conversation on Civility (2022).
