Column Title: Communitas Column Entry: The Image of God, Hope, and the Tragedy of Suicide 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 …
A Prayer for the ability to see God in all things, by David Bentley Hart
A Prayer for the Ability to See God in All Things “If one has not yet acquired the ability to see God in all things, one should not imagine that one will be able to see God in oneself.” Author: David Bentley Hart, Source: The Experience of God (2014) Prayer: Heavenly Father, grant me the ability to see You in …
A Prayer for those Who Influence Public Opinion, the Book of Common Prayer
For those who Influence Public Opinion “Almighty God, you proclaim your truth in every age by many voices: Direct, in our time, we pray, those who speak where many listen and write what many read; that they may do their part in making the heart of this people wise, its mind sound, and its will righteous; to the honor of …
Column entry, “Doing Justice to God’s Justice,” by John Hatch
Crossed My Mind: Thoughts on Culture and Communication By John Hatch, Ph.D. Eastern University CCSN Senior Fellow June-July entry: “Doing Justice to God’s 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 …
“A Prayer to Give Proper Place to the Physical and Spiritual in Our Communication,” by Howard Snyder
A Prayer to Give Proper Place to the Physical and Spiritual in Our Communication, by Howard Snyder Scripture Reading “How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.” — Psalm 119:103-04 Prayer Lord God, you have made us to inhabit time and eternity, …
“Resisting the Tyranny of Immediacy: Cultivating Patience in Digital Spaces,” by Chase Mitchell
Enjoy this recent post by Chase Mitchell, in the Christian Scholar’s Review blog. “In Western culture, and especially in America, patience is rarely considered a virtue. Increasingly, we celebrate impetuosity. The punchline of a recent New Balance commercial, for example, is “impatience is a virtue.” This tactic is ostensibly deployed for marketing purposes—mere hyperbole meant to highlight that company’s corporate …
CCSN Vlog, “Life Together, with Dietrich Bonhoeffer,” by Stephanie Bennett
Please enjoy this next installment in Stephanie Bennett’s Vlog, “Contemplation, Communication, and Culture in the Secret Place” (Psalm 91:1-2). Stephanie is a Professor of Communication and Media Ecology at Palm Beach Atlantic University. Please enjoy and share her vlog. In this offering, Stephanie reflects on the classic book “Life Together,” by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
The Honor or Obligation of Prayer?, by Tertullian
“And so its only knowledge is how to call back the souls of the deceased from the very highway of death, to straighten the feeble, to heal the sick, to cleanse the devil-possessed, to open the bars of the prison, to loose the bands. of the innocent. It also absolves sins, drives back temptations, quenches persecutions, strengthens the weak-hearted, delights …
A prayer to “seize my soul in silence,” by Mark Williams
Seize my soul in silence O God, who alone causes yourself to be your self; Almighty God, author of all being, fount and cause of all good things; O God, beyond our knowing; Almighty God who knows yourself and is love; O God, who alone is justly worshipped; Holy God, holy and mighty, Holy Immortal One; O God, who has …
A prayer for our words to be changed by the love of the Lord, by John Wesley
Heavenly Father, may our words be changed by our deep and abiding love for You. “O Lord, may nothing dwell in my soul But your pure love alone. Till my every thought, word, and act be love. Yes Lord, may your love possess me whole; You’re my joy, my treasure, my crown!” – John Wesley (1703 – 1791) (“A Plain …
