Column title: Crossed My Mind: Thoughts on Culture and Communication Column entry: “Why Voddie Baucham’s Fault Lines Should Be Read with a Critical Eye” 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 …
Quote of the Week, Reverence Related to Technology
Reverence Related to Technology. Mercer, a friend of Mae’s, challenging her view of “the Circle,” a massive Google/Amazon/Facebook company. “We are not meant to know everything, Mae. Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately calibrated between the known and the unknown? That our souls need the mysteries of night and the clarity of day? You people are …
Now Available, New Book on Playwriting and the Christian Perspective, by Gillette Elvgren
[Return to Integratio Press] Title: Playwriting: A Christian Perspective Author: Gillette Elvgren ISBN paperback: 978-1-959685-03-6 ISBN ebook: 978-1-959685-04-3 LCCN: 2023943746 258 pages Price: $27.00 Request an e-exam copy from the author: gillelvjr@gmail.comm [Amazon Associates Link below] Description The author has written and produced numerous plays for the Church, the Academy, and professional theatrical environments. In this book, he provides aesthetic …
A Prayer For Communication In Relationships
Prayer For Communication In Relationships Our God, We thank You for Your everlasting love and presence in our lives. We come before You today, seeking guidance and wisdom for better communication in our relationships. Please grant us the patience to listen to one another truly. Let us find stillness in our hearts to hear Your voice and allow it to …
New Vlog, The Power of Conversation, by Stephanie Bennett
Description: Despite the numerous ways we can all connect through our digital devices, people are reporting less and less opportunities for conversation, less opportunity to know and be known. In fact, this year the U.S. Surgeon General released a report stating that along with smoking and obesity, loneliness is at epidemic proportions and is now listed as the newest public …
A Prayer Confirming that All Things Will be Well, by Julian of Norwich
A Prayer Confirming that All Things Will be Well “[Jesus said to me] most reassuringly: I am able to make everything well, and I know how to make everything well, and I wish to make everything well, and I shall make everything well; and You shall see for yourself that all manner of things shall be well.” — Julian of …
Coming Soon, New Book on Playwriting from a Christian Perspective, by Gil Elvgren
Available Nov. 1, 2023 Title: Playwriting: A Christian Perspective Author: Gillette Elvgren ISBN paperback: 978-1-959685-03-6 ISBN ebook: 978-1-959685-04-3 LCCN: 2023943746 258 pages Price: $27.00 URL to book on ccsn website: https://www.theccsn.com/ccsn-books-integratio-press/ Description The author has written and produced numerous plays for the Church, the Academy, and professional theatrical environments. In this book, he provides aesthetic keys for the faith-based writer and …
A Prayer of Commitment, by Howard Snyder
A Prayer of Commitment Daily Scripture Reading Therefore, my brothers and sisters, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved. — Philippians 4:1 Prayer Lord Jesus, precious Savior and Guide, I worship you and praise you and rest in you this day. Take my life and let it …
Quote of the week, Keeping Company with Scripture, by Eugene Peterson
“By keeping company with the writers of Holy Scripture we are schooled in a practice of reading and writing that is infused with an enormous respect—more than respect, awed reverence—for the revelatory and transformative power of words.” –Eugene Peterson Source: Eugene Peterson, Eat This Book (Eerdmans, 2006), p. 3 (shared by Greg Spencer from the forthcoming book, Awakening the Quieter …
A First-century Prayer for Joy and Gladness, The Clementine Liturgy
For Joy and Gladness Blessed are you, O Lord, for you have nourished me from my youth and you give food to all flesh. Fill our hearts with joy and gladness that we always have sufficiency in all things, and may abound to every good work in Christ Jesus our Lord; through him be glory to you, honor, might, majesty, …
