Column Title: In Search of Right Words: Saint Augustine, Rhetoric, and Preaching By Brandon Knight, Ph.D. William Carey University September: “Ethos: Harmonizing Life and Teaching” 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 gain from the study …
Column Entry, Let’s Talk Family, Families Doing Life Together
Column: Let’s Talk Family: Conversations about Faith and Family Flourishing Column entry: Families Doing Life Together 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 …
Quote of the Week, The End of Absence, from Michael Harris
“I think that within the mess of changes we’re experiencing, there’s a single difference that we feel most keenly; and it’s also the difference that future generations will find hardest to grasp. That is the end of absence—the loss of lack. The daydreaming silences in our lives are filled; the burning solitudes are extinguished.” — Michael Harris, The End of …
Quote of the Week, Knowing versus Loving the Truth, from Confucius
“They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.” –Confucius Source: Confucius, Analects 6.18
Book Review, Christianity and Critical Race Theory: A Faithful and Constructive Conversation
Book Reviewed: Robert Chao Romero and Jeff M. Liou, Christianity and Critical Race Theory: A Faithful and Constructive Conversation (Ada, MI: Baker Academic, 2023). Amazon.com Associates Link Reviewed By: John B. Hatch Journal of Christian Teaching Practice, Volume 10 (January-December 2023) Reviewer Affiliation: CCSN Senior Fellow / JCTP Book Review Editor Total Pages: 208 ISBN-10: 1540965198 Ever since Critical Race Theory began to emerge …
Book Project, A Call for Prayers for Communication
Integratio Press, CCSN’s imprint, is collecting a year’s worth of prayers on or about faithful communication for a short book. These can be original prayers you have written, or prayers throughout church history that address some meaningful aspect of communication. Also, the prayer can be a meaningful quote–anything from a sentence to a full paragraph or more–from a Church Father …
Prayer, Thanking God for the Gift of Communication, by Kevin Jones
Father, thank you for your gift of communication. Please forgive me for ways I may have misused your gift, hurt others with my words, not listened in love, and not honored you with my communication. I ask for help from the Holy Spirit with my words so I can show your love to others with the words I speak. I …
Quote of the Week, Hurry as the Enemy of Spiritual Life, by Dallas Willard
“Hurry is the great enemy of the spiritual life in our day. You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.” Dallas Willard, answering John Ortberg’s question, “What do I need to do to become the me I want to be?” Reference Dallas Willard, as reported by John Mark Comer in The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry (Waterbrook, 2019), pp: 18-19.
Quote of the week, The Importance of Scholarly Communities, by Richard Mouw
Former Fuller Theological Seminary President Richard J. Mouw, in discussing the “life of the mind,” suggests we need academic spaces that allow us to play with ideas, to mentor, and to be mentored in ways that leverage resources and build partnerships. Speaking to Christian scholars, Mouw suggests: “We cannot avoid the ‘weight of the cross’ as we attempt to fulfill …
Column Entry, Let’s Talk Family, “Cultivating Resilience and Adapting to Stress”
Column: Let’s Talk Family: Conversations about Faith and Family Flourishing Column entry: Cultivating Resilience and Adapting to Stress 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 …
