(paid link) Title: Everyday Sabbath: How to Lead Your Dance with Media and Technology in Mindful and Sacred Ways (Cascade Books, 2021) Authors: Paul Patton and Robert Woods Instructional Materials Available: https://www.theccsn.com/everyday-sabbath-how-to-lead-your-dance-with-media-and-technology-in-mindful-and-sacred-ways/ Order a review or exam copy from the publisher’s website: https://wipfandstock.com/search-results/?keyword=everyday+sabbath Book description from Amazon: “The authors, writing as scholars of communication and media, demonstrate how God’s great …
New Book, Terry Lindvall, Souls for Sale: Rupert Hughes and the Novel Hollywood Religion
(paid link) Title: Souls for Sale: Rupert Hughes and the Novel Hollywood Religion (Reel Spirituality Monograph Series) (Cascade Books, 2021) Author: Terry Lindvall Order a review or exam copy from publisher’s website: https://wipfandstock.com/9781725293076/souls-for-sale/ Description of book from amazon: “The beginning of the twentieth century evolved out of an era of Freethinking atheists and agnostics who challenged the Protestant hegemony of …
Recorded Webinar: Voddie Baucham and the Gnostics Who Have No Love: Boundary Work and a Rhetorical Exposé of Social Justice within Evangelicalism, by Brandon Knight
Title: Voddie Baucham and the Gnostics Who Have No Love: Boundary Work and a Rhetorical Exposé of Social Justice within Evangelicalism Presenter and Affiliation: Brandon Knight, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Communication, William Carey University Description: Dr. Voddie Baucham warned of fractures within the evangelical community when delivering a sermon at the 2019 Southeastern Founders’ Conference introducing a newly coined concept …
Job Announcement, Eastern University, Rhetoric/Generalist
Position: Rhetoric/Generalist Institution: Eastern University Description: The Communication Studies Department at Eastern University invites applications for a full-time, tenure track Assistant/ Associate Professor of Communication Studies to begin August 2022. Area of specialization: Rhetoric. Our department of four full-time faculty is looking for a colleague with the spirit of a generalist. The successful candidate will teach undergraduate courses in public …
CCSN Breakfast at RCA and NCA, Nov. 18, please join us
Friends and colleagues. The CCSN will be hosting a breakfast during the National Communication Association Meeting on Thursday, November 18, 7:30 am, at the Renaissance Hotel in downtown Seattle (the same hotel where the Religious Communication Association is holding its annual pre-conference). Space is limited so please RSVP by Friday, Nov. 12, at administrator@theccsn.com. Whether you are a long-time supporter …
“Keeping the Faith in Grad School,” by Lakelyn Taylor (October Column)
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: “Boo,” by Mark Williams
Column: “Meaningful-Faith: Words, the Word, and a Life of Substance” By Mark Williams, Ph.D. Professor of Rhetoric, California State University, Sacramento Boo. October 31, 2021 I am in the middle of preparing an update to a textbook on public speaking, and that means the publisher has tasked me with locating a set of images or illustrations for the text from …
Research Participants needed, People of Faith in Public Higher Education
From Sam Taylor, Doctoral Student Ohio University Hi everyone! I am recruiting participants for a research study on how people who identify as an academic and as a person of faith manage these two identities in the context of a higher education institution. If you identify as an academic, as a person of faith, and have an affiliation to a …
New Column, Crossed My Mind, by John Hatch
Crossed My Mind: Thoughts on Culture and Communication By John Hatch, Ph.D. Eastern University 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; Christ descends to the …
Column, Damaged Goods, by Dennis Smith
Column Title: Bearing Witness: Reflections on a Life in Mission Column Entry: Damaged Goods 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 …
