Column: Image to Image: Musings on Faith, Media, and Story September entry: “Speak to Know, Listen to Be Known” 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 …
Column entry, Let’s Talk Family, Challenging Cohabitation, a Popular Pathway to Marriage
Column: Let’s Talk Family: Conversations about Faith and Family Flourishing Column entry: Challenging Cohabitation, a Popular Pathway to Marriage 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 …
Article, Encouraging Students’ Search for Meaning and Purpose:  A Communication Arts Project Intended for Students’ Spiritual Growth, by Darlene Carbajal
Encouraging Students’ Search for Meaning and Purpose:  A Communication Arts Project Intended for Students’ Spiritual Growth Darlene Carbajal, Ph.D., Communication Arts, University of the Incarnate Word Abstract This article is about spirituality and teaching in higher education and the potential for faculty to encourage students’ spiritual development and search for meaning and purpose. The pedagogical approaches prepare students for future …
Article, Quench not the Spirit: A Case for Brevity, by Julie Morgan and Rick Olsen
Quench not the Spirit: A Case for Brevity Julie Morgan, Eastern University Rick Olsen, University of North Carolina Wilmington Academics are known for many positive attributes. Brevity is rarely among them. The average length of a journal article has increased significantly over the years and we often coach our students to support their claims more fully.[1] We celebrate thoroughness, not …
A Prayer to be Unentangled by the Web, by George Lengerke
Prayer For Media – Entangled In The Web Lord, Creator of the real world. I bring before you all I find on the Internet: the many words – both true and false, the many people – near and far, the many details – important and trivial, the many images – of the best and worst in man. Free me – …
Quote of the Week, Attention and Devotion, by Mary Oliver
“Attention is the beginning of devotion.” –Mary Oliver Source: Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays (Penguin, 2016), p. 8.
Vlog Entry, How Do We Communicate with God?, by Stephanie Bennett
Description: Do I love you? In The Secret Place Once again we’re discussing what it means to communicate with the One who made us. How do we talk with God in ways that filter into our daily lives? Do we need big chunks of time to be a serious disciple of Christ, or is there a simpler way to walk …
Article, Faith-learning Integration as Bricolage: Jesus the Feminist as a Case Study, by Tim Muehlhoff
Faith-learning Integration as Bricolage: Jesus the Feminist as a Case Study Journal of Christian Teaching Practice, Volume 10 (January – December, 2023) Tim Muehlhoff, PhD Professor of Communication, Biola University Introduction Bricolage is an odd term used by artists to create something using diverse materials readily available. I often think of that term when I’m in my office writing a …
A Prayer for Better Communication, by Pope Francis
Prayer For Media – Prayer For Better Communication Lord, make us instruments of your peace. Help us to recognize the evil latent in a communication that does not build communion. Help us to remove the venom from our judgements. Help us to speak about others as our brothers and sisters. You are faithful and trustworthy; may our words be seeds …
Prayer, For a Discerning Heart, by King Solomon
Heavenly Father, we offer up this prayer by King Solomon as our own today: I Kings 3:9: [Solomon’s prayer when he learns he will be king.] “Give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong. For who is able to govern this great people of yours?” (Today’s New International Version) In Jesus’ …
