Column Title: Leadership Life Stories: Communicating and Leading through Your Story Column Entry: “Looking UP: Rediscovering Leadership Through Story and Stillness” By Chris Hamstra, PhD, Davenport University Description: There is a power when people come together to share stories. As people of faith, the practice and process of storytelling helps us understand ourselves, our communities, and our organizations. When combined with leadership, stories …
Column entry, “Competing Narratives for The Good Life: Human Flourishing, Artificial Intelligence, and the Imago Dei,” by Elizabeth McLaughlin
Column Title: Communitas Column Entry: “Competing Narratives for The Good Life: Human Flourishing, Artificial Intelligence, and the Imago Dei” 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 …
Column entry, “How the Age of Conspiracy became Inescapable, and How to Escape from It,” by Mark Williams
Column Title: Meaningful-Faith: Words, the Word, and a Life of Substance Column Entry: “How the Age of Conspiracy became Inescapable, and How to Escape from It” By Mark Williams, Ph.D. Professor of Rhetoric, California State University, Sacramento July 2025 / March 2025 / February 2025 / January 2025 / July 2024 / June 2024 / May 2024 / November 2022 …
Column Entry, “Untangling CRT for Christians (Part 4 of 4),” by John Hatch
Column title: Crossed My Mind: Thoughts on Culture and Communication Column entry: “Untangling CRT for Christians (Part 4 of 4)” By John Hatch, Ph.D. Eastern University (retired) CCSN Senior Fellow 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; …
June Vlog Entry, A Heart of Wax or a Heart of Stone, with Stephanie Bennett
In this entry . . . What does it mean to have a soft heart? First off, it is totally counter-cultural. God may want to create a soft and compassionate heart in each of us, but it is not what the world wants of us. The teaching of Jesus is needed today more than ever, but it seems that everything the …
Column entry, “The Image of God and ‘The Narrow Path’ to AI Sanity,” by Elizabeth McLaughlin
Column Title: Communitas Column Entry: “The Image of God and ‘The Narrow Path’ to AI Sanity” 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, …
Column entry, “The Masters, the Master, and Love Belied,” by Chase Mitchell
Column: Image to Image: Musings on Faith, Media, and Story December entry: “The Masters, the Master, and Love Belied” 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 …
Vlog entry, Reality of the Spiritual World, by Stephanie Bennett
In this entry . . . This week we read and discuss a book titled Reality of the Spiritual World. Thomas Kelly is the author of this gem-of- a-book. In it, he discusses the three stages of the spiritual life and helps us understand how we might nurture a more civil discourse in the midst of an increasingly divisive media …
Column Entry, “Untangling CRT for Christians (Part 3 of 4),” by John Hatch
Column title: Crossed My Mind: Thoughts on Culture and Communication Column entry: “Untangling CRT for Christians (Part 3 of 4)” By John Hatch, Ph.D. Eastern University (retired) CCSN Senior Fellow 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; …
Column Entry, “Loneliness, Artificial Intelligence, and the Image of God,” by Elizabeth McLaughlin
Column Title: Communitas Column Entry: “Loneliness, Artificial Intelligence, and the Image of God” 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 …
