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 …
Column: “You Cannot Help What You Do Not Love,” by Mark Williams
You Cannot Help What You Do Not Love By Mark Williams, Ph.D. Professor of Rhetoric, California State University, Sacramento (from the regular Column: “Meaningful-Faith: Words, the Word, and a Life of Substance”) Sometimes fortune is very hard on me. Recently, for example, I had to spend well over an hour sitting in a middling discount clothing store while a teenager …
A Soul Stirrings Podcast Update, Expanded Reach
Soul Stirrings, a CCSN podcast by Dr. Paul Patton (CCSN Senior Fellow, Professor Emeritus of Communication and Media, Spring Arbor University) is now on Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify! Please follow and share with others. Also available on Soundcloud. About Soul Stirrings “Soul Stirrings” is Dr. Paul Patton’s 5-7 minute attempt to provide clarifying, maybe even inspiring. nuggets of insight about …
New Column, Image to Image, by Chase Mitchell
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 particular focus on the relationships between theology, media, and orthopraxy across different Christian …
Soul Stirrings, Fruit of the Spirit, Goodness (Parts 1-3)
In case you missed it, enjoy Goodness: Parts 1-3 of Paul’s Series on the Fruit of the Spirit. Soul Stirrings · Ep. 24: Fruit of the Spirit – Goodness, Pt. 1 Soul Stirrings · Ep. 25: Fruit of the Spirit – Goodness, Pt. 2 Soul Stirrings · Ep. 26: Fruit of the Spirit – Goodness, Pt. 3
New Column, Bearing Witness: Reflections on a Life in Mission, by Dennis Smith
Bearing Witness: Reflections on a Life in Mission By Dennis Smith * 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 for Christian …
Guest Post, A Christian Critique of the Award-winning Film Minari, by Chase Mitchell
CCSN member and new regular guest columnist Chase Mitchell critiques another award-winning film, Minari, for Christian Scholar’s Review. Jacob’s Well: Pride and Grace in Eden, Arkansas https://christianscholars.com/guest-post-jacobs-well-pride-and-grace-in-eden-arkansas/
Guest Column: A Column That Is Absolutely Not About Critical Race Theory.
A Column That Is Absolutely Not About Critical Race Theory. By Mark Williams, Ph.D. Professor of Rhetoric, California State University, Sacramento (from the regular Column: “Meaningful-Faith: Words, the Word, and a Life of Substance”) Over the roughly ninety days of March, April, and May of this year, Fox News mentioned Critical Race Theory (CRT) 1,300 times.[1] What you are reading …
Book Review, Speaking to Reconciliation, by John B. Hatch
Hatch, John B. Speaking to Reconciliation: Voices of Faith Addressing Racial and Cultural Divides (New York: Peter Lang, 2020) 184 pages. Amazon link. Reviewed by Annalee R. Ward, Director of the Wendt Center for Character Education University of Dubuque The powerful film The Apology, by Toronto director Tiffany Hsiung, traces the stories of three women, often called “comfort women,” who …
