We pray for humility in all areas, Lord, including intellectual humility, as we enter a new semester and season of learning. As we seek to worship you in all things, including our academic work, please grant us a humility that opens our hearts and minds to your truth. Disturb Us, Lord Disturb us, Lord, when We are too well pleased …
Invitation to CCSN Research Breakfast at NCA, please RSVP
Friends and colleagues. CCSN will be hosting a research breakfast at the National Communication Association (NCA) annual meeting this year on Thursday, Nov. 17, 7:30 am, at the Sheraton New Orleans, 500 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70130, one of the two main NCA convention hotels. We will discuss research and writing ideas, build networks that lead to possible collaborations, …
Column Entry, “Keeping the Faith in Grad School,” by Lakelyn Taylor
Column title: Keeping the Faith in Grad School August Column entry: Keeping the Faith by Hearing His Voice Column Description: Writing as a Christian who is a doctoral student at a public institution of higher learning, Lakelyn reflects on how graduate students can maintain their faith in graduate school when it seems hard to do. This column is not about …
Column Entry, “Cancel Social Justice?”, by John Hatch
Crossed My Mind: Thoughts on Culture and Communication By John Hatch, Ph.D. Eastern University (retired) CCSN Senior Fellow August-September: “Cancel Social Justice?” 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 personal or political advancement; Christ seeks the lost and the least. We …
A Prayer Before Study, as we begin a new semester, by St. Aquinas
A Prayer Before Study [as we begin a new semester] “Creator of all things, true Source of light and wisdom, lofty origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your brilliance penetrate into the darkness of my understanding and take from me the double darkness in which I have been born, an obscurity of both sin and ignorance. Give …
Recordings of Summer Workshops and Conferences Now Available
Friends and colleagues. Below is a list of our summer 2022 events. Instructions on how to access a particular recorded event are available at the online store. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have questions: 517.740.0668, or rwoods@theccsn.com CCSN 2022 SUMMER WORKSHOPS AND COFNERENCES in Communication Title: Digging Deeper: Strategies for Research in Communication Studies Presenters/Facilitators: …
Recorded Webinar, “When the Levee Breaks: J. Gresham Machen and The Good Fight of Faith,” with Brandon Knight
Title: When the Levee Breaks: J. Gresham Machen and The Good Fight of Faith Presenter: Brandon Knight, PhD, William Carey University Date/Time: Friday, Sept. 9, 4-5 pm EDT Description: This research analyzes J. Gresham Machen’s final chapel sermon at Princeton Seminary entitled “The Good Fight of Faith” to reconstruct a watershed moment in the American church. During this time of contestation, …
Tenure-track Faculty Opening, Westmont College, Generalist
Position Job Description: The Department of Communication Studies invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant or Associate rank to begin in January or August 2023. We are looking for a candidate who enjoys teaching introductory courses in the discipline as well as some combination of upper-level courses in rhetoric, media, and their area of research. We welcome …
A Prayer to the Divine Tutor, by St. Clement of Alexandria
Prayer to the Divine Tutor – St Clement of Alexandria “Be kind to Your little children, Lord; that is what we ask of You as their Tutor, You the Father, Israel’s guide; Son, yes, but Father as well. Grant that by doing what You told us to do, we may achieve a faithful likeness to the Image and, as far …
A Prayer to Communicate Faithfully on the Behalf of Others, by Howard Snyder
“Help me, Lord, in the work of prayer. Help me bear faithfully and hopefully the burden of intercession. Thank you, Lord Jesus, for bearing us up in prayer; that you live constantly interceding for us; that your Holy Spirit intercedes “with sighs too deep for words,” according to your will. O Lord, may your kingdom come, I pray. Amen.” (Rom. …
