Relational Dialectics with God I am worn out calling for help; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God. Psalm 69:3(NIV) Several years ago, a student in an interpersonal class wrote me the most satisfying note I ever received as a teacher. She explained that she had been estranged from her mother for many years. But after …
A Prayer for Writers, Editors, Publishers, and the Press
A Prayer for Writers, Editors, Publishers, and the Press Almighty God, strengthen and direct, we pray, the will of all whose work it is to write what many read, and to speak where many listen. May we be bold to confront evil and injustice: understanding and compassionate of human weakness; rejecting alike the half-truth which deceives, and the slanted word …
A Social Media Prayer, by Meredith Gould
A Social Media Prayer Christ has no online presence but yours No blog, no Facebook page but yours, Yours are the tweets through which love touches the world, Yours are the posts through which the Gospel is shared, Yours are the updates through which hope is revealed. Christ has no online presence but yours, No blog, no Facebook page but …
Column Entry, “The Image of God and Roe vs. Wade,” by Elizabeth McLaughlin
Column Title: Communitas Column Entry: “The Image of God and Roe vs. Wade” 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 …
Three podcasts on “self-control,” with Paul Patton and Soul Stirrings
Paul recently completed his 9-part series on the Fruit of the Spirit with his final 3 podcasts on self-control. You can listen to Paul’s exploration of all 9 “Fruits of the Spirit” here: https://soundcloud.com/theccsn Paul will begin a new series called “God Talk and the Manipulative Use of Spiritual Language,” with Brandon Knight, William Carey University. Stay tuned for more …
A Prayer to be a witness for Christ, by Cardinal Suhard
To Be A Witness To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one’s life would not make sense if God did not exist. – Cardinal Suhard
A Prayer for Humility, by Sir Francis Drake
We pray for humility in all areas, Lord, including intellectual humility, as we enter a new semester and season of learning. As we seek to worship you in all things, including our academic work, please grant us a humility that opens our hearts and minds to your truth. Disturb Us, Lord Disturb us, Lord, when We are too well pleased …
Column Entry, “Keeping the Faith in Grad School,” by Lakelyn Taylor
Column title: Keeping the Faith in Grad School August Column entry: Keeping the Faith by Hearing His Voice 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 …
Column Entry, “Cancel Social Justice?”, by John Hatch
Crossed My Mind: Thoughts on Culture and Communication By John Hatch, Ph.D. Eastern University (retired) CCSN Senior Fellow August-September: “Cancel Social Justice?” 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 …
A Prayer Before Study, as we begin a new semester, by St. Aquinas
A Prayer Before Study [as we begin a new semester] “Creator of all things, true Source of light and wisdom, lofty origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your brilliance penetrate into the darkness of my understanding and take from me the double darkness in which I have been born, an obscurity of both sin and ignorance. Give …
