Answering the Call: Vocational Discernment in Student Internships Joy A. York, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Communication Studies Whitworth University [Note: this article appears in a special edition on Service Learning in Christian Higher Education. Special thanks to Kristen Sipper, Azusa Pacific University, for recommending this special edition] Abstract The integration of faith into the higher ed classroom and …
The Rhetoric of Lent
“The Rhetoric of Lent” (Cultural commentary and critique by CCSN Guest Columnist/Blogger, Mark Williams, California State Univ., Sacramento). This article, by Timothy O’Malley, in Church Life Journal stresses the ways we can, so to speak, misread the text of Lent. We do that by using the scripts and signs of this season as a springboard of self-expression or even self-discipline …
Analogy as a Strategy for Faith-Learning Integration
Analogy as a Strategy for Faith-Learning Integration (Note: Dr. Wood is the 2018 Quentin J. Schultze and Paul A. Soukup Faith-Learning Integration Award Winner for outstanding Christian scholarship in Communication Studies) Naaman Wood, Ph.D. Redeemer University College Abstract As a habit for faith-learning integration, analogies can help Evangelicals accomplish historian Mark A. Noll’s call to resource the Christian tradition, …
Promoting Co-curricular Learning Success: How Sharing Assessment Results Can Strengthen On-campus Credibility and Help Recruit Students
Promoting Co-curricular Learning Success: How Sharing Assessment Results Can Strengthen On-campus Credibility and Help Recruit Students Ken Waters, Ph.D., Professor of Journalism, Pepperdine University Elizabeth R. Smith, Ed.D., Assistant Professor of Journalism, Pepperdine University Abstract This paper examines the assessment procedures used for the extracurricular student newsroom at one small, liberal arts, Christian university. The assessment of this student newsroom …
Faith as Foundational: A Holistic Approach to Faith and Learning Integration
Faith as Foundational: A Holistic Approach to Faith and Learning Integration Jeremy Osborn, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Communication, Cornerstone University Keywords: Holistic Faith Integration, Becoming, Application in Action. Cite as: Jeremy Osborn, “Faith as Foundational: A Holistic Approach to Faith and Learning Integration,” Journal of Christian Teaching Practice, 5(1), 2018, https://www.theccsn.com/faith-as-foundational-a-holistic-approach-to-faith-and-learning-integration/ Introduction Most of my life in academia has been spent at institutions …
Faith Integration as Servant Leadership in the Communication College Classroom
Faith Integration as Servant Leadership in the Communication College Classroom Kevin T. Jones, Ph.D. Professor of Communication Arts, George Fox University Abstract: The integration of faith and learning is often misunderstood. While the phrase is often used in Christian college circles, defining the phrase has proven challenging at times. While students may think it is just praying before class, there …
Faith Integration as Identity
Faith Integration as Identity Jonathan Pettigrew, Ph.D. Arizona State University, Assistant Professor, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication Introduction Immediately after completing my undergraduate psychology degree from a small state school in Texas, I moved across the country to Indiana. Licensed as a minister and commissioned as a missionary, I began working as a Christian campus minister at a large, …
In It with Them: Embracing Process and Authenticity as Transformational Points of Connection
In It with Them: Embracing Process and Authenticity as Transformational Points of Connection Richard K. Olsen, Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Associate Professor and Department Chair Introduction The essay is as much a confessional as a guide. Sharing my account of integrating and negotiating my personal faith journey with what I believe is my calling to teach at a …
Co-Creating Spaces as a Faith Integration Strategy
Co-Creating Spaces as a Faith Integration Strategy Douglas L. Kelley, Ph.D. Arizona State University, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences Introduction I have been a scholar, of sorts, for over thirty years. It has been a mostly marvelous time of engaging students and ideas through teaching and writing. I have taught and written at community colleges, at private Christian liberal …
“Dancing Lessons”: Using a Dialogic Text to Promote Racial Awareness and Reconciliation
“Dancing Lessons”: Using a Dialogic Text to Promote Racial Awareness and Reconciliation John Hatch, Ph.D. Eastern University, Chair, and Professor of Communication Studies. Abstract: The Christian college classroom provides a pivotal environment for raising awareness of systemic racial injustice and the need for interracial reconciliation. For Euro-American students, however, being confronted with a racialist legacy tends to evoke social pain …
