Column title: Keeping the Faith in Grad School Column entry: Keeping the Faith through Radical Hospitality 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 …
Column Entry, “More About Dealing with Difference,” by Dennis Smith
Column Title: Bearing Witness: Reflections on a Life in Mission Column Entry: More About Dealing with Difference Column Description: If you hang around long enough, mingle with enough folks in enough places on this fragile planet, and pay attention at least part of the time, life happens. And with life, stories. In this monthly column, Dennis Smith, former President of …
Devotional, “Finding Rest in God in the Information Age,” by Geri Forsberg
Finding Rest in God in the Information Age Bronze Sculpture by Tom Otterness displayed at Western Washington University, Photo by Geri E. Forsberg “Woe to me! I am worn out with groaning and find no rest” (Jer 45:3). In today’s digital culture, a person can literally be busy 24/7. We have more information available to us than ever before …
New column entry: “Pondering Meaning in Unseen Good, Unseen Bad, Misunderstood Motives,” by Mark Williams
Column Title: Meaningful-Faith: Words, the Word, and a Life of Substance Column Entry: “Pondering Meaning in Unseen Good, Unseen Bad, Misunderstood Motives” By Mark Williams, Ph.D. Professor of Rhetoric, California State University, Sacramento May 2024 / November 2022 / October 2022 / March 2022 / February 2022 / November 2021 / October 2021 / September 2021 / August 2021 / June-July 2021 / …
Column entry, “Dealing with Difference,” by Dennis Smith
Column Title: Bearing Witness: Reflections on a Life in Mission Column Entry: Dealing with Difference Column Description: If you hang around long enough, mingle with enough folks in enough places on this fragile planet, and pay attention at least part of the time, life happens. And with life, stories. In this monthly column, Dennis Smith, former President of the World …
New column entry: “Words, Meaning, and Toddlerism,” by Mark Williams
Title: “Words, Meaning, and Toddlerism” Column: “Meaningful-Faith: Words, the Word, and a Life of Substance” By Mark Williams, Ph.D. Professor of Rhetoric, California State University, Sacramento February 2022 / November 2021 / October 2021 / September 2021 / August 2021 / June-July 2021 / April-May 2021 Words, Meaning, and Toddlerism In case you missed it, that Everyman of Magazines, Political Psychology, put …
Column entry, “Climate Justice and the City,” by Dennis Smith
Column Title: Bearing Witness: Reflections on a Life in Mission Column Entry: Climate Justice and the City Column Description: If you hang around long enough, mingle with enough folks in enough places on this fragile planet, and pay attention at least part of the time, life happens. And with life, stories. In this monthly column, Dennis Smith, former President of …
Column entry, “Aim for Joy: Symbolic Power and Preaching,” by Brandon Knight
Column Title: In Search of Right Words: Saint Augustine, Rhetoric, and Preaching By Brandon Knight, Ph.D. William Carey University 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—and still today—many questioned what use the church could possibly gain from the study of oratory. Nevertheless, …
Column entry, “The Image of God and the Vocation of Teaching,” by Elizabeth McLaughlin
Column Description: The term Communitas refers to an unstructured community of equal members often traveling from one place to another. Like the characters in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, we are fellow pilgrims on the road towards the Father’s house, following Jesus as the way, truth, and life. This column is a space to share common ideas about faith, communication, and culture …
Column Entry, “What to Do When Paradise Stinks,” by Chase Mitchell
Column: Image to Image: Musings on Faith, Media, and Story January entry: What to Do When Paradise Stinks Column Description: Image to Image: Musings on Faith, Media, and Story is a monthly column that illuminates old and new ideas about media ecology from a Christian perspective. Dr. Mitchell will explore what it means to bear God’s image and Christian witness in a …
