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; …
Integratio Press, New Book, Humility and Hospitality: Changing the Christian Conversation on Civility
Welcome to the page for Humility and Hospitality: Changing the Christian Conversation on Humility (Editors, Naaman Wood, Sean Connable; Foreword by Janie Marie Harden Fritz). This is a publication of Integratio Press, the CCSN’s imprint. Available in paperback and ebook formats. [Amazon Associates Link] Book description This book aims to change the Christian conversation regarding civility, from techniques about achieving civility …
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 …
New JCTP book review editor; call for reviews, articles
Colleagues and friends. Please welcome John Hatch as book editor for the Journal of Christian Teaching Practice (in Communication Studies) (JCTP). John recently taught at Eastern University, and now serves as a CCSN Senior Fellow. Please consider submitting a book review or other submission that fits one of the forms described below. JCTP publishes original work focusing on pedagogical examples …
Recorded webinar, Humility and Hospitality: Changing the Christian Conversation on Civility, Naaman Wood and Sean Connable
Title: Humility and Hospitality: Changing the Christian Conversation on Civility Date/Time: Monday, Nov. 14, 7-8 pm EST Description: This book aims to change the Christian conversation regarding civility, from techniques about achieving civility to the conditions necessary for civility to exist. As such, the authors in this volume explore the work of Dr. Calvin Troup, president of Geneva College, and …
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 …
