Book Reviewed: Christina Bieber Lake (2020), The Flourishing Teacher: Vocational Renewal for a Sacred Profession (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press) Journal of Christian Teaching Practice, Volume 11, 2024 (January – December) Reviewed By: Donna M. Elkins Reviewer Affiliation: Campbellsville University Total Pages: 224 ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-5284-0 No one in higher education needs to be cautioned that we are in a …
A Morning Supplicatory Prayer, by St. John Chrysostom, 344-407 AD
Lord, deprive me not of Your heavenly joys. Lord, deliver me from eternal torments. Lord, if I have sinned in mind or thought, in word or deed, forgive me. Lord, deliver me from all ignorance, forgetfulness, cowardice and stony insensibility. Lord, deliver me from every temptation. Lord, enlighten my heart which evil desires have darkened. Lord, I being human have …
Column entry, “Christian Family Practice: Cultivating Prayer,” with Jonathan Pettigrew and Diane Badzinski
Column: Let’s Talk Family: Conversations about Faith and Family Flourishing Column entry: “Christian Family Practice: Cultivating Prayer” By Jonathan Pettigrew, PhD, Arizona State University; Diane Badzinski, PhD, Colorado Christian University Column Description: Let’s Talk Family: Conversations about Faith and Family Flourishing is a monthly column offering a space to consider research-based, biblically-sound practices for family communication. We all have families. …
Book Review, Cultivating Mentors: Sharing Wisdom in Christian Higher Education
Book Reviewed: Todd C. Ream, Jerry Pattengale, and Christopher J. Devers, eds., Cultivating Mentors: Sharing Wisdom in Christian Higher Education (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2022) Journal of Christian Teaching Practice, Volume 11, 2024 (January – December) Reviewed by: Ken Waters, PhD Reviewer Affiliation: Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA Total Pages: 169 ISBN-13:978-1-5140-0252-0 The first faculty member I hired when …
Don’t miss this week’s webinar with Kevin Jones, Teaching Basic Communication Principles
Title: Unwrapping the Gift of Communication: Teaching Faith-based Communication Principles in Communication Courses Presenter: Kevin Jones PhD, George Fox University Date/Time: Wednesday, August 7, 2024, 6-7 pm EST Description: Unwrapping the Gift of Communication uses scripture to illustrate many basic communication principles taught in communication classrooms. This webinar will explain what inspired the writing of the book and how it …
Quote of the Week, Selfish vs. Holy Ambition, Philippians 2:3-4
“Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.” –Philippians 2:3-4
A Prayer Before Study, as we gear up for a new semester, by St. Aquinas
A Prayer Before Study [as we gear up for 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 …
Book Review, J. E. Sigler, Holy Ghost in the Catholic Machine: Spirit-Structure Tensions in Parish Preaching Work
Book Reviewed: J. E. Sigler, Holy Ghost in the Catholic Machine: Spirit-Structure Tensions in Parish Preaching Work (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2023) Journal of Christian Teaching Practice, Volume 11, 2024 (January – December) Reviewed by: Mark A. E. Williams Reviewer Affiliation: California State University, Sacramento Total Pages: 498 ISBN-13: 979-8385200047 I do not know if it is possible to …
Case Study, Spiritual Insights Speech Assignment Explanation: A Faith Integration Assignment for a Public Speaking Course, by Julie Borkin
Spiritual Insights Speech Assignment Explanation: A Faith Integration Assignment for a Public Speaking Course Journal of Christian Teaching Practice, Volume 11, 2024 (January – December) Julie Borkin, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Taylor University Abstract: The public speaking course requires informative and persuasive speech planning, practice, and preparation. At a Christian university where faith integration is encouraged or required, the …
Quote of the Week, The Key to Producing Good Work, by Cal Newport
“What was true for Jane Austen in the eighteenth century is true for those of us who stare at computer screens in the twenty-first: doing fewer things is the key to producing good work.” –Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout, 65
