Common Call and CCSN Conference this week, Christ and Communication

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A Common Call: A Conference on Christ and Communication Sponsored by Faculty Commons and the Christianity and Communication Studies Network Register here. We are excited to invite you to an August 20, 2021, Zoom conference on Christ and Communication. This conference is being co-sponsored by Faculty Commons (FC), a ministry of Cru, which outreaches with professors and graduate students in …

New Book, Seeking Communion as Healing Dialogue, by Margaret Mullan

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Seeking Communion as Healing Dialogue: Gabriel Marcel’s Philosophy for Today by Margaret Mullan East Stroudsburg State University [May be available from other sellers at lower prices] [From Amazon: “Seeking Communion as Healing Dialogue: Gabriel Marcel’s Philosophy for Today discusses society’s problems with interpersonal communication, arguing that these issues are more deeply rooted in problems in being. Margaret M. Mullan draws …

Guest Column: A Column That Is Absolutely Not About Critical Race Theory.

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A Column That Is Absolutely Not About Critical Race Theory. 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”) Over the roughly ninety days of March, April, and May of this year, Fox News mentioned Critical Race Theory (CRT) 1,300 times.[1] What you are reading …

Lakelyn Taylor, CCSN Graduate Fellow

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Meet Lakelyn E. Taylor, CCSN’s first-ever Graduate Fellow. Lakelyn is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in strategic communication in the Nicholson School of Communication and Media at the University of Central Florida. Her research interests lie at the intersection of religion and ethics in risk, crisis, and instructional communication contexts. Lakelyn will be assisting CCSN with research and writing projects, …

Teaching Students to Lead Thriving Small Groups, with Ryan Hartwig

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Presenter: Ryan Hartwig, Ph.D., Dean and Professor of Communication, Colorado Christian University Title: Teaching Students to Lead Thriving Small Groups Date: Wednesday, September 15, 6-7 pm EST. Description: Blending insights developed from a study of hundreds of small group members and leaders (as presented in Leading Small Groups That Thrive, Zondervan, 2020) and experiences gained from years teaching transformative small …

Book Review, Speaking to Reconciliation, by John B. Hatch

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Hatch, John B. Speaking to Reconciliation: Voices of Faith Addressing Racial and Cultural Divides (New York: Peter Lang, 2020) 184 pages. Amazon link. Reviewed by Annalee R. Ward, Director of the Wendt Center for Character Education University of Dubuque The powerful film The Apology, by Toronto director Tiffany Hsiung, traces the stories of three women, often called “comfort women,” who …

Book Review, Digital Creatives, by Heidi A. Campbell

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Heidi A. Campbell. Digital Creatives and the Rethinking of Religious Authority. (New York: Routledge, 2021). 236 pages  Reviewed by Zachary Sheldon Doctoral Student, Communication Texas A & M University Early research on the internet included speculations about how this nascent technology might challenge traditional conceptions of authority. This tension was especially felt in religious contexts where authority has long been predicated …

Book Review, Cinematic Faith, by Bill Romanowski

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William D. Romanowski. Cinematic Faith: A Christian Perspective on Movies and Meaning (Baker Academic, 2019). 240 pages. Amazon link. By Adam Sonstroem Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communication Studies Arizona Christian University In the Preface, Romanowski calls his book a “primer for navigating the world of film” from a Christian perspective (p. ix) and considers it a sequel to his earlier …