I received a call from a colleague at a Christian university. As a professor in the university’s theater department, there had been a complaint about the language in a production of Arthur Miller’s All My…
Most Christians even remotely familiar with the gospels would recognize the Pharisees as the sect prominently noted for being recipients of Jesus’ scathing denunciations. In Matthew 23 He labels them as “blind guides”, “white-washed…
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Deeply entrenched in middle age, I have become a bird-watcher. This autumn, bird-watching had become almost as significant to me as the early Saturday evening overview of college gridiron scores. Confirmation on whether…
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There was a commotion down at the local “YMCA” yesterday afternoon. It didn’t rank up there with the more flamboyant commotions— like the fights one occasionally sees between hockey parents at Pee-wee league games…
Ethical persuasion involves learning to talk like a grown-up. Or, put in another way, unethical persuasion involves acting childish, putting our self-interests first….
Quentin J. Schultze. Christianity and the Mass Media in America: Toward a Democratic Accommodation. East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University Press, 2003. viii+430 pp. (hardbound) $84.95, ISBN 0-87013-696-8.…
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In the beginning was the Word. (John 1:1).
For communication scholars, that seems like a good place to begin, in the beginning with the Word. This is the logos, the expression of an idea. According to the Apostle John, the logos was worked out through the incarnation and is the root and life of our faith. God is expressing himself, communicating his character and his plan, revealing his glory. He does this effectively and relentlessly, as the God who speaks to us, listens to us, and even argues with us.
