Link to Job Description on Benedictine College’s Website Description Department: Journalism & Mass Communications Job Status: Full-Time FLSA Status: Reports To: Department Chair / Academic Dean Grade/Level: Amount of Travel Required: Work Schedule: This position will start on August 1, 2024 Positions Supervised: The Benedictine College Journalism and Mass Communications Department is seeking candidates for a tenure-track position to teach undergraduate courses in …
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 …
CCSN Breakfast and Research Roundtable at NCA, Nov. 16, RSVP
Friends and colleagues. The CCSN will be hosting a research roundtable discussion and breakfast during the National Communication Association Meeting on Thursday, November 16, 7:00 am, at the Westin Washington National Harbor Room, Potomac A. Address: 171 Waterfront Street, National Harbor, Maryland, USA, 20745 The breakfast is free, courtesy of Cru/Faculty Commons (our co-sponsor) and CCSN. Special thanks to Geri …
Call for Proposals, what Christian thinkers and theologians have to say about communication, new book
Communication Studies in Christian Thought (working title) In 2018, your editors were part of a book titled Words and Witnesses: Communication Studies in Christian Thought from Athanasius to Desmond Tutu (Hendrickson, 2018). It included more than 40 chapters from nearly as many authors and institutions. It covered early church, medieval, Renaissance, Reformation, early modern, modern, and contemporary Christian thinkers and …
Call for Proposals, Share your Faith-learning Integration Classroom and Research Practices
Call for Proposals Christian Faith-learning Integration in Communication Studies: Theoretical Foundations, Practical Applications [PDF of proposal] The Context: Christian higher education, like the rest of higher education, is in a time of transition. Challenges brought on by population shifts, changing public attitudes toward higher education, rising operational costs, dominance of digital technologies, and decline in a cultural, moral consensus has …
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 …
Quote of the Week, Words that Bring Life
“The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.” —Proverbs 10:11 (Today’s New International Version)
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 …
