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 …
Assistant/Associate Professor of Communication, Tenure Track, George Fox University
Position Description: Assistant/Associate Professor of Communication George Fox University announces a tenure-track position in Communication with a specialization in Public Relations and/or Strategic Communication to begin August 15, 2023. The successful candidate will teach a full load of 24 units and maintain an active program of scholarship and service to the institution. We seek a new colleague who is collaborative, …
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
Faculty Opening, Colorado Christian University
About the Job Colorado Christian University is looking for an outstanding faculty member who will teach in-seat Communication courses starting Fall 2023. This faculty member will teach courses and develop curriculum within the Department of Communication, housed within the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS) in the College of Undergraduate Studies (CUS). The Department of Communication offers one general …
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 …
Invitation to CCSN Research Breakfast at NCA, please RSVP
Friends and colleagues. CCSN will be hosting a research breakfast at the National Communication Association (NCA) annual meeting this year on Thursday, Nov. 17, 7:30 am, at the Sheraton New Orleans, 500 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70130, one of the two main NCA convention hotels. We will discuss research and writing ideas, build networks that lead to possible collaborations, …
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 …
