Cite as follows: McLaughlin, Elizabeth (2016). Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond (New York: Crown Publishers, 2013). [Book Review]. Journal of Christian Teaching Practice [Total Pages: 148] [a publication of the Christianity and Communication Studies Network, www.theccsn.com, copyright 2016] By Elizabeth W. McLaughlin, Bethel College, Indiana; elizabeth.mclaughlin@bethelcollege.edu Poverty: say the word and many stereotypic media images appear: hunger, violence, …
Faith Integration as Identity
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In It with Them: Embracing Process and Authenticity as Transformational Points of Connection
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Co-Creating Spaces as a Faith Integration Strategy
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“Dancing Lessons”: Using a Dialogic Text to Promote Racial Awareness and Reconciliation John Hatch, Ph.D. Eastern University, Chair, and Professor of Communication Studies. Abstract: The Christian college classroom provides a pivotal environment for raising awareness of systemic racial injustice and the need for interracial reconciliation. For Euro-American students, however, being confronted with a racialist legacy tends to evoke social pain …
Call for RCA 2017 Book, Article, and Dissertation Awards
Call for RCA 2017 Book, Article, and Dissertation Awards RCA is accepting nominations for its annual outstanding Book, Article, and Dissertation Awards. RCA Book Award is given for the outstanding scholarly book on religious communication published between May 2016 and May 2017. Those wishing to nominate a book for the award should send four copies of the book …
2017 Religion Communicators Council Convention
The Religion Communicators Council is an interfaith association of more than 400 religion communicators working in print and electronic communication, advertising, and public relations. Members represent Baha’i, Christian, Hindu, Jewish and Muslim faith communities. Founded in 1929, the council is the oldest public relations professional association in the United States. Members of the RCC are keenly interested in the next …
RES RHETORICA: ‘RHETORIC OF RELIGION’ CALL FOR PAPERS (February 2017)
RES RHETORICA: ‘RHETORIC OF RELIGION’ CALL FOR PAPERS (February 2017) Res Rhetorica is a peer-reviewed open access quarterly academic journal (ISSN 2392-3113). Its scope includes both theories of rhetoric and practices of persuasive communication. In The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology (1961) Kenneth Burke wrote: “Theological doctrine is a body of spoken or written words. Whatever else …
Essential Questions Series, Special Guest, Dr. Terry Lindvall
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“Ode for O Joe,” Motivation and Communication – Part 2 (by Paul A. Creasman)
Motivation and Communication – Part 2 “Ode for O Joe” Paul A. Creasman, Arizona Christian University, Professor of Communication; Chair, Communication and English Department (paul.creasman@arizonachristian.edu) I was saddened to learn this summer that Joey “O Joe” Taylor, the co-founder and driving force behind Undercover, one of the seminal early Contemporary Christian punk/rock bands, had renounced his Christian beliefs. Although this …
