A Prayer for God to Open My Ears Open my ears, O God, so that I can hear your voice calling me to attempt great things. Too often when you have spoken to me I have been deaf to your appeals; but now give me the courage to answer, Here I am; send me. Help me to hear when any …
Column entry, “Beyond Racial Division: Truth, the Gospel, and Yancey’s Third Way,” 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; …
A Prayer for Listening People, by Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
A Prayer for Listening People Dear Father in heaven, we thank you that you are so near us and that we may be near you. We thank you that throughout our days we may be people who listen to you with all our hearts and minds, a listening people who can receive what is good and true for our lives …
Devotional, Perception-Checking:Â When All Is Not as It Appears, by Donna Elkins
Perception-Checking: When All Is Not as It Appears There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death. Proverbs 14: 12 (NIV) Have you ever looked at a 3D poster with hidden images (often called stereogram images)? You must get close, un-focus your eyes, and look for the hidden shape behind the …
A Prayer to remember Jesus’s life and communication on earth, by John Baillie
A Prayer to Remember Jesus’s Life and Communication on Earth Help me, Lord, to remember the blessed life that was once lived out on this common earth, under these ordinary skies. May I take this memory into each task and duty of today. Help me to remember – His eagerness to help others, rather than be helped; His sympathy with …
Column entry, “Frederick Buechner and Telling the Truth,” 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; …
A Prayer for Steadfastness in our Communication, by St. Therese of Lisieux
A Prayer for Steadfastness in our Communication “I desire neither death nor life. Were the Lord to offer me a choice, I would not choose. I will only what he wills, and I am pleased with whatever he dies. I have no fear of the last struggle, or of any pain, however great, which my illness may bring. God has …
CCSN, Intrapersonal Communication Health, with Stephanie Bennett
The things we tell ourselves make a great difference in our ability to walk in healthy emotional stability. Our spiritual practices of silence, solitude, and stillness help immensely here. Stephanie shares a bit from an author new to her — Jim Borst, author of Coming to God in the Stillness. The Secret Place is a boutique channel produced with love …
Column entry, “Facing the Truth,” by Chase Mitchell
Column: Image to Image: Musings on Faith, Media, and Story September-October entry: “Facing the Truth” 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 prayer for peace while being present, by St. Francis de Sales
Prayer of Saint Francis de Sales “Be at Peace Do not look forward in fear to the changes of life; rather look to them with full hope as they arise. God, whose very own you are, will deliver you from out of them. He has kept you hitherto, and He will lead you safely through all things; and when you …
