Today Stephanie brings a new author to our attention, Joyce Huggett in the Exploring Prayer Series. Her book, Finding God in the Fast Lane, unpacks the way we can learn to pray without ceasing, as St. Paul wrote about in his letters to the young Christians. The Secret Place is a boutique channel produced with love (not numbers) to inspire …
Catching up with “Neither Jew, Nor Greek,” CCSN’s latest podcast, with Dr. Omotayo Banjo
Catch up with recent episodes of CCSN’s most recent podcast with Dr. Omotayo Banjo. Neither Jew, Nor Greek seeks to engage in scholarly and scriptural conversations about the cultural divisions in Christ’s body which prevent us from being One. Jesus expressed in John 13:35 that the world would know we were followers of the Messiah by how we love one …
A Prayer of Thankfulness to God, the Giver of Words, by St. Francis of Assisi
A Prayer of Thankfulness to God, the Giver of Words Heavenly Father, today we give thanks for who You are and the glory of all that You have created, including the gift of communication. May our words reflect Your glory and help bring about Your Kingdom on earth as it is in Heaven. Wherever we are, in every place, At …
Column Entry, “The Death of the Soul,” by Brandon Knight
Column Title: In Search of Right Words: Saint Augustine, Rhetoric, and Preaching By Brandon Knight, Ph.D. William Carey University November: “The Death of the Soul” Column Description here: 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 …
A Prayer for Mercy in Our Communication, by St. Augustine
A Prayer for Mercy in Our Communication Lord, you know those who are sore stricken and heavy of heart. As their days, so let their strength be. Heal the sick, comfort the weary, succor the tempted, give peace to the dying and light at eventide.… Watch over us who are still in our dangerous voyage, and remember such as lie …
Devotional, Answering Questions with Grace, Donna Elkins
Answering Questions with Grace Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person. Colossians 4: 6 (NIV) Over the past 20 years teaching basic public speaking courses, I have seen how difficult it is for beginning speakers have an open Q & A time with the audience at …
Teacher-scholar column, “Faith-learning Integration in Organizational Communication,” by Matthew Fuss
Faith-learning Integration in Organizations: Helping Students Develop a Theology of Management/HR Matthew Fuss, PhD Geneva College As a former manager in both Human Resources and Operations, I spent a little over thirteen years managing people and processes in industries ranging from trucking to telecommunications, in organizations ranging in size from just over 100 to well over 10,000. Having answered the …
A Prayer for Empathy, by St. Ambrose
O God, who did look on humanity when they had fallen down into death and resolve to redeem them by the advent of your only-begotten Son, grant, we ask you, that they who confess his glorious incarnation may also be admitted to the fellowship of him their Redeemer; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. St. Ambrose (339 AD …
Column entry, “Faith-ful Antiracism: Oxymoron—or Example of Living Faith?” by John Hatch
Crossed My Mind: Thoughts on Culture and Communication 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 the lost and the least. We grasp for cultural ascendency; …
Vlog, Technology and Spiritual Formation, with Stephanie Bennett
Description: Sherry Turkle and Douglas Rushkoff aren’t names you’d typically find in the Secret Place, but their books about the importance of remembering our humanness are helpful and inspiring. Think about it this way: What informs our communication behavior in this age of social media and frictionless interaction? Are we listening for the Voice of the Lord or listening passively …
