Aliens, Power, and Humility, or How do we talk to each other? By Mark Williams, Ph.D. Professor of Rhetoric, California State University, Sacramento (from the regular Column: “Meaningful-Faith: Words, the Word, and a Life of Substance”) If you have not been following the extraterrestrial news, allow me to bring you up to date. The task won’t take long. The television …
Book Review, Fault Lines, by Voddie Baucham
Baucham, V. T. Fault lines: The social justice movement and evangelicalism’s looming catastrophe (Washington, DC: Salem Books, 2021). 270 pages. Amazon link. By Brandon Knight, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Communication William Carey University Due to the recent growth of social justice advocacy, many evangelicals are asking legitimate questions of their leadership such as, “Are current calls for social justice the …
Hybrid Church Conversations, with Professor and Speaker, Katie Alred
In our latest Hybrid Church Conversations Series, CCSN Practitioner-in-Residence, Garrett Gerhart, discusses the future of the church with Professor and Speaker Katie Alred. https://katieallred.com/
Exploring the Relationship Between Love and the Meaning of Words
Calling all “Reality Czars” and Other “Minsters of Truth”: Exploring the Relationship Between Love and the Meaning of Words By Mark Williams, Ph.D Professor of Rhetoric, California State University, Sacramento (from the regular Column: “Meaningful-Faith: Words, the Word, and a Life of Substance”) Politics invites a certain (let’s call it) informal relationship with words. Reagan’s Freedom Fighters, Hillary Clinton’s Basket …
Four recent podcasts on kindness and communication, from Soul Stirrings, with Paul Patton
Enjoy these four recent podcasts on kindness and communication by Dr. Paul Patton, host of the podcast Soul Stirrings. Soul Stirrings is Dr. Paul Patton’s 5-7 minute attempt to provide clarifying, maybe even inspiring. nuggets of insight about faith, communication, and culture along the journey of our existence. Paul is Professor Emeritus of Communication and Media at Spring Arbor University in …
Podcast, “Soul Stirrings,” Fruit of the Spirit, Part 3
In case you missed it, please enjoy this third installment of Paul’s “Soul Stirrings” podcast on the Fruit of the Spirit called Kindness: CCSN · “Fruit of the Spirit – Kindness, Pt. 3” Ep. 22 – with Dr. Paul Patton Here is Part 2, and Part 1: PART 2 CCSN · “Fruit of the Spirit – Kindness, Pt. 2” Ep. …
Devotional – A Time of Sabbath, Dr. Bill Strom
A Time of Sabbath * Bill Strom, Ph.D. Professor of Communication + Media Trinity Western University “There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a sabbath to the Lord […] But in the …
“Words don’t have meaning, people have meaning…?” (or, “This Last, Dim, Weird Battle of the West” or, “The End of Civilization, Maybe.” (Part 4)
“This last, dim, weird battle of the West” or, The End of Civilization, Maybe. (Part 4) By Mark Williams, Ph.D Professor of Rhetoric, California State University, Sacramento (from the regular Column: “Meaningful-Faith: Words, the Word, and a Life of Substance”) After the breaking and entering of the US Capitol Building, the Senate chaplain, in the early morning hours after the …
ICYMI, Podcast on Kindness, Part 2, with Paul Patton on “Soul Stirrings”
This is my second podcast on the fifth “Fruit of the Spirit,” Kindness. In my first podcast on kindness, I considered how every unkind act or unkind word is a momentary forgetting of the kindness of God. In this podcast, I want to emphasize that the Apostle Paul preached, essentially, that kindness was the first characteristic of God that he …
Column: “Forgetting what it Means to Remember,” by Mark Williams
Forgetting what it Means to Remember By Mark Williams, Ph.D Professor of Rhetoric, California State University, Sacramento (from the regular Column: “Meaningful-Faith: Words, the Word, and a Life of Substance”) Memory is a tricky thing, and we have forgotten what it means to remember—or to forget. In Dante’s superb adventure story, the hero completes his trials and difficulties. In hell …
