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 …
Free Digital Journal, “Character and . . .,” from the Wendt Center
Looking for resources to help your students engage with current topics and good character? Communication faculty will find relevant articles written from a variety of disciplines in the free digital journal Character and . . ., published by the Wendt Center for Character Education at the University of Dubuque. Topics range from screen life and social media to identity and place, and include articles …
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 …
