By Your Word You Have Brought Us out of Darkness Lord God, heavenly Father, we most heartily thank you that by your Word you have brought us out of the darkness of error into the light of your grace. Mercifully help us to walk in that light, guard us from all error and false doctrine and grant that we may …
Book Review, A Media Ecology of Theology: Communicating Faith Throughout the Christian Tradition
Book Reviewed: Soukup, Paul A., S.J. (2022). A Media Ecology of Theology: Communicating Faith Throughout the Christian Tradition (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press). (Amazon Associates Link) Reviewed By: Stephanie Bennett Journal of Christian Teaching Practice, Volume 10 (January-December 2023) Reviewer Affiliation: Palm Beach Atlantic University Total Pages: 240 ISBN-10: 148131775X From the importance of the spoken word in primary oral cultures to the social media …
Quote of the Week, Are You Unborable?, by David Foster Wallace
“To be, in a word, unborable. . . . It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.”[i]—David Foster Wallace, The Pale King [i] David Foster Wallace, The Pale King (New York: Back Bay, 2011), 438.
Column Entry, Putting Critical Race Theory in The Frame, by John Hatch
Column title: Crossed My Mind: Thoughts on Culture and Communication Column entry: Putting Critical Race Theory (CRT) in The Frame 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; …
A Prayer to Guard and Guide our Leaders
Guard and Guide Our Leaders O merciful Father in heaven, all rule and authority in the kingdoms of the world comes from you, and you hold in your hand all the might of humanity. You have instituted the governing authorities that exist for the punishment of those who do wrong and for the approval of those who do good. Look …
Quote of the Week, Our Heart’s Default Mode, by Timothy Keller
“A fundamental insight of Martin Luther’s was that ‘religion’ is the default mode of the human heart. Your computer operates automatically in a default mode unless you deliberately tell it to do something else. So Luther says that even after you are converted by the gospel your heart will go back to operating on other principles unless you deliberately, repeatedly …
A Prayer for Communication, by David and Jonathan Bennett
Lord, we ask for Your grace and blessing as we try to spread the gospel message through the various media available to us in our day. Through both word and deed, may we act like Your disciples and be an example of joy and hope to our beleaguered brothers and sisters. On social media and the internet, may we remember …
Devotional, Face Down: Body Language and the Shaping of Our Spiritual Experience, by Donna Elkins
Face Down: Body Language and the Shaping of our Spiritual Experience Then Abram fell face down and God spoke with him. Genesis 17:3 (CSB) Social psychologist Amy Cuddy became a sensation with her TED Talk about the benefits of “power posing.”[1] Her research, later published in the 2015, focuses on the impact our body language has on what we think …
A Prayer for the Holy Spirit to Protect Us, by Veit Dietrich
Grant Us Your Holy Spirit to Protect Us Lord God, heavenly Father, through your Son you promised us that whatever we ask in his name you will give us. Keep us in your Word and grant us your Holy Spirit, that he may govern us according to your will, protect us from the power of the devil, from false doctrine …
Quote of the Week, Technology and Authenticity, by Pope Francis
Modern technology is “a gift of God which involves a great responsibility. . . . It is not technology which determines whether or not communication is authentic, but rather the human heart and our capacity to use wisely the means at our disposal.”[i]—Pope Francis, Fiftieth World Communications Day, January 24, 2016 [i] John Dye, “Pope Francis Calls Texts, Internet, Social …
