[Return to main workshops/conferences 2025 page to view all 10 events] Lead Presenter/Facilitator: Rodney Clapp, Editor, Cascade Books Date/Time: Monday, June 2, 2025 | 11:30 am – 3:00 pm EDT REGISTER HERE Description: Drawing on nearly fifty years’ work editing newspapers, magazines, and books, Rodney Clapp offers tips and guidance for the span of the writing process—from nurturing an …
Vlog entry, Reality of the Spiritual World, by Stephanie Bennett
In this entry . . . This week we read and discuss a book titled Reality of the Spiritual World. Thomas Kelly is the author of this gem-of- a-book. In it, he discusses the three stages of the spiritual life and helps us understand how we might nurture a more civil discourse in the midst of an increasingly divisive media …
Quote of the Week, Trust and Communication
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” –Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV) Questions for reflection: Is your communication straight or crooked? How does your communication demonstrate or reflect your “trust in the Lord”?
A Prayer for Peace, St. Francis of Assisi
Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi (Prayer for Peace) Lord, make me an instrument of your peace: where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. O divine Master, grant that I may not so much …
Book Review, Communicating for Life: Christian Stewardship in Community and Media
Book Reviewed: Schultze, Quentin J., Communicating for Life: Christian Stewardship in Community and Media (Pasco, WA. Integratio Press, 2024). (Amazon Associates Link) Journal of Christian Teaching Practice, Volume 12, 2025 (January – December) Reviewed by: Klaire Smith Reviewer Affiliation: East Texas Baptist University Total Pages: 336 ISBN—13: 978-1-959685-09-8 I was first introduced to Schultze’s book Communicating for Life: Christian …
Workshops in Faith and Communication, Open for Registration, Please Share
CCSN 2025 SUMMER WORKSHOPS and CONFERENCES in Communication [Return to Main Workshop Page] 1. Registration is now open for all 10 summer events. 2. Format: All 10 events are offered in the virtual environment through Zoom and are from 11:30 am – 3:00 pm EDT, on Monday and Thursday (with one exception, June 25, Wednesday), beginning June 2 and ending …
Column Entry, “Untangling CRT for Christians (Part 3 of 4),” by John Hatch
Column title: Crossed My Mind: Thoughts on Culture and Communication Column entry: “Untangling CRT for Christians (Part 3 of 4)” By John Hatch, Ph.D. Eastern University (retired) CCSN Senior Fellow 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; …
Quote of the Week, True Nourishment and Strength, John Wesley
“It is not enough to have Bibles, but we must use them, yea, use them daily. Our souls must have constant meals of that manna which if well digested, will afford them true nourishment and strength.” — John Wesley, comment on Deuteronomy 17:19, Explanatory Notes Upon the Old Testament (Quote from Wesley Courtesy of Howard Snyder) Question for Reflection: How …
A Prayer for Wisdom, George Matheson and Howard Snyder
George Matheson, 1882, wrote: O Love that wilt not let me go, I rest my weary soul in thee; I give thee back the life I owe, that in thine ocean depths its flow may richer, fuller be. Prayer God of wisdom, Spirit of truth, I bow now in worship before you, praising you and asking for your wisdom. Give …
Quote of the Week, Truths and Blasphemies, by George Bernard Shaw
“All great truths begin as blasphemies.” —George Bernard Shaw, 19th and 20th century Irish playwright, polemicist, and political activist Question for reflection: What truths about communication with God, self, and others began as “blasphemies”?
