Column: Image to Image: Musings on Faith, Media, and Story November entry: Little Advents 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 mediated world, with a …
New column entry, A Complete* History of the Modern World, by Mark Williams
A Complete* History of the Modern World (or, everything* you need to know about Postmodernism) Column: “Meaningful-Faith: Words, the Word, and a Life of Substance” By Mark Williams, Ph.D. Professor of Rhetoric, California State University, Sacramento November 2021 / October 2021 / September 2021 / August 2021 / June-July 2021 / April-May 2021 My workplace recently required me to upload and install some …
Column Entry, A Common Hope, by Dennis Smith
Column Title: Bearing Witness: Reflections on a Life in Mission Column Entry: A Common Hope 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 …
“Keeping the Faith in Grad School,” by Lakelyn Taylor (October Column)
Keeping the Faith in Grad School 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” side in debates about religion or secular …
Column: “Boo,” by Mark Williams
Column: “Meaningful-Faith: Words, the Word, and a Life of Substance” By Mark Williams, Ph.D. Professor of Rhetoric, California State University, Sacramento Boo. October 31, 2021 I am in the middle of preparing an update to a textbook on public speaking, and that means the publisher has tasked me with locating a set of images or illustrations for the text from …
New Column, Crossed My Mind, by John Hatch
Crossed My Mind: Thoughts on Culture and Communication By John Hatch, Ph.D. Eastern University 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 the lost and the least. We grasp for cultural ascendency; Christ descends to the …
Column, Damaged Goods, by Dennis Smith
Column Title: Bearing Witness: Reflections on a Life in Mission Column Entry: Damaged Goods 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 Association …
Column, Icons and Explainer Videos: Christian Media in Context, by Chase Mitchell
Column: Image to Image: Musings on Faith, Media, and Story October entry: Icons and Explainer Videos: Christian Media in Context 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 …
New Column, Communitas, by Elizabeth McLaughlin
Communitas 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 …
New Column, Keeping the Faith in Grad School, by Lakelyn Taylor
Keeping the Faith in Grad School 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” side in debates about religion or secular …
