Column Title: Meaningful-Faith: Words, the Word, and a Life of Substance Column Entry: “Crossing Jordan Peterson: What would it mean to think in a Christian way about cultural phenomena?” By Mark Williams, Ph.D. Professor of Rhetoric, California State University, Sacramento October 2022 / March 2022 / February 2022 / November 2021 / October 2021Â / September 2021Â / August 2021 / June-July …
Column entry, Hallelujah: Discovering the Strangeness of Scripture, by Brandon Knight
Column Title: In Search of Right Words: Saint Augustine, Rhetoric, and Preaching By Brandon Knight, Ph.D. William Carey University September-October: “Hallelujah: Discovering the Strangeness of Scripture” Column Description here: Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, in his work On Christian Doctrine, illustrates the important relationship between preaching and rhetoric. Even in his day, many questioned what use the church could possibly …
Case Study, “Servant Leadership: When School Leaders Stop, Slow Down, and Listen,” by Lumar Vargas
Servant Leadership: When School Leaders Stop, Slow Down, and Listen By Lumar Vargas, anaya.lu@gmail.com Lumar Vargas is an Urban Educational Leadership Ph.D. student at Cleveland State University. She has been a teacher, school administrator, and teacher leadership coach. Lumar also serves co-vocationally as a church planter and hopes to merge her love for ministry and education. Â Introduction It was …
New Column, Teacher-Scholar: Servant Teaching and Missional Scholarship, Quentin Schultze
Title: Teacher-Scholar: Servant Teaching and Missional Scholarship Entry: “Servant Teaching with Faith, Skill, and Virtue,” by Quentin Schultze, Professor of Communication Emeritus, Calvin University, and CCSN Senior Fellow Column Description: this column explores the important inter-connections between teaching and scholarship in Christian higher education. Contributors address such questions as: What does it mean to be a “servant teacher” who is …
Column Entry, “The Image of God and Roe vs. Wade,” by Elizabeth McLaughlin
Column Title: Communitas Column Entry: “The Image of God and Roe vs. Wade” 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 …
Column Entry, “Keeping the Faith in Grad School,” by Lakelyn Taylor
Column title: Keeping the Faith in Grad School August Column entry: Keeping the Faith by Hearing His Voice 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 …
Column Entry, “Cancel Social Justice?”, by John Hatch
Crossed My Mind: Thoughts on Culture and Communication By John Hatch, Ph.D. Eastern University (retired) CCSN Senior Fellow August-September: “Cancel Social Justice?” 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 …
ICYMI, Episode 2, Neither Jew, Nor Greek, with Dr. Tayo Banjo
Neither Jew Nor Greek · Ep. 2: One in Christ In this episode we lay the foundation of many of the problems we are witnessing today regarding interpersonal struggles with Christians of a different cultural/racial background, especially as it relates to hot topics like Black Lives Matter. Using Muted Group theory and Communication accommodation theory worship pastor, Reggie Lenzie and …
CCSN Vlog, “Communicating More Effectively,” with Stephanie Bennett
Summary: Augustine lived in the 3rd century and was faced with much division in the early church and lots of inner turmoil regarding the use of words and rhetoric in the Church. He wrote On Christine Doctrine to help untangle some of the misconceptions about what it means to share the Gospel with wisdom and eloquence. Today, we look at …
Column entry, “The Image of God and a Fresh Start,” by Elizabeth McLaughlin
Column Title: Communitas Column Entry: The Image of God and a Fresh Start 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 …
