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 …
Article: Inspiring Consensus in Community: The Faith and Hope in Proximate Speech, by Joel Ward
Inspiring Consensus in Community: The Faith and Hope in Proximate Speech Joel S. Ward, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Communication, Geneva College Abstract: The outlook for our current age seems bleak. We respond by conjuring up thin hopes since this appears to stabilize and sustain human communities. Genuine hope comes from its companion faith, the inner assurance of good things promised. In Romans …
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 …
Article: “Teaching Peace as Christian Witness,” by Gerald Mast
Teaching Peace as Christian Witness Gerald J. Mast, Ph.D. Professor of Communication Bluffton University Abstract: The peace of Jesus Christ is both a spiritual and a cosmic reality to which Christian educators may bear witness not only in their life and example, but also in their scholarship and teaching. If the life and teachings of Jesus Christ make visible a …
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 …
Article: “Faith and the God-Problem in Media Studies,” by Paul A. Creasman
“Faith and the God-Problem in Media Studies” Paul A. Creasman, Ph.D. Arizona Christian University Abstract: This essay proposes new directions for research into the intersection of Christian communication and media studies. Starting with Schultze’s “God Problem” I show how much research into religion and media limits itself to audience surveys and general histories, or ignores questions of faith and media …
