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The Four Voices of Preaching: Communicating Faith in a Connected World
Robert Stephen Reid
Sermons preached before a congregation are only one way people hear messages of faith. Whether the listener is seated in a pew or listening to a podcast or a book about faith, most of the faith-talk people hear is shaped by a speaker’s faith sensibility. And those faith sensibilities can generally be distinguished as four distinctly different “voices” of preaching. Understanding what these voices are, how they differ in purpose as well as design, and how excellence in each voice can make for greater authenticity in communicating faith is what this book is about.
Awakening the Quieter Virtues: Shouting Softly in a Noisy World
Gregory Spencer
In this updated and expanded version of Dr. Spencer’s classic offering, we are treated to new insights and expressions of wisdom. Big, colorful virtues like courage and decisiveness in crisis easily get our attention. But sometimes it’s those everyday values that shape us much more profoundly.
Unwrapping the Gift of Communication: Theoretical Applications and Biblical Wisdom for Relationships that Thrive
Kevin T. Jones
Unwrapping the Gift of Communication provides readers with theoretically sound principles and guidelines for relational communication. God created human beings with the gift of language which allows us to communicate and build relationships. Unfortunately, this “gift” can often cause problems and strain relationships. Fortunately, God was aware of the challenges communication could create and we have been given Scripture to help us figure out how to unwrap the gift and use it in a positive way.
Just Words: Lessons of Ancient Education, Classical Rhetoric, and Pagan Religion for a Post-Christian World
Mark A. E. Williams
What do we expect from our words? And what if those very expectations were not just wrong, but dangerous, and dangerous precisely because they kept us from moving toward justice? In a provocative and sustained argument, Professor Williams forwards the claim that our present ideas of language are a closed loop that inevitably spirals toward violence.
Communicating for Life: Christian Stewardship in Community and Media
Quentin J. Schultze
In this updated and expanded edition, the author invites professors of communication and media to reflect on each chapter in light of our current cultural challenges and technological advancements over the past two decades. The collection of voices and conversations offer a discerning introduction to communication theory that guides readers through an interesting, creative, and biblical study of communication.
Directing Theater: A Christian Perspective
Gillette Elvgren
The author brings a career of academic and professional directing experience to inform readers how to select, prepare, and mount a production for the stage. At the same time, he expresses the disciplines, joys, and rigors of the faith-based walk as a framework for this creative journey. The aesthetic requisites for stage directing are combined with an exploration of what it means to be a practicing artist under God’s creative mandate.
Playwriting: A Christian Perspective
Gillette Elvgren
This book provides an approach to writing playscripts for the theatre by the Christian writer. In part one, it establishes the aesthetics of story and situates the faith-based writer within a more theoretical context. Part two examines story structure elements and tools that will equip the writer to continue her journey in realizing her full creative potential through the written word.
Family Communication and the Christian Faith: An Introduction and Exploration
Jonathan Pettigrew and Diane Badzinski
Why does the family matter? How can the family truly flourish with so many different opinions about what family means and what role it plays in society? How can we strengthen the family to reflect God’s design for it? Family Communication and the Christian Faith: An Introduction and Exploration provides answers to these questions.
Humility and Hospitality: Changing the Christian Conversation on Civility
Naaman Wood and Sean Connable
This book aims to change the Christian conversation regarding civility, from techniques about achieving civility to the conditions necessary for civility to exist. As such, the authors in this volume explore the work of Dr. Calvin Troup, president of Geneva College, and his insights regarding humility and hospitality—presented at a keynote address at a conference—and interrogate the ideas that serve as its foundation.
Professing Christ: Christian Tradition and Faith-Learning Integration in Public Universities
Jonathan Pettigrew and Robert H. Woods Jr.
At a time when Christian voices in higher education are facing increased persecution and marginalization, the Christian authors of this collection who teach in public universities share their faith-learning integration journeys including their practical, theoretical, and biblically based strategies for teaching, administration, and doing research. Authors explain how they actively subvert secular worldviews that marginalize biblical truth, promote incivility, and discourage love of neighbor.
And the Word Became Flesh: Devotionals for Theater Artists
Richard T. Young
God’s claim on the life of a Christian theater artist is no different than God’s claim on the life of a preacher, teacher, plumber, carpenter, or bank clerk. But the call to the world of theater can be a dilemma for those who follow Christ. The siren song of theater is alluring and powerful. To survive in and influence the theater world, it takes a Christian whose heart, mind, and soul are well focused on the Lord of the Cosmos.
Gerstein: A Full-length Play in Two Acts
Paul D. Patton
Gerstein is the riveting, true story of Kurt Gerstein, an eccentric youth minister whose devotional literature sold to tens of thousands throughout pre-Nazi Germany. With the National Socialist takeover in 1933, Gerstein finds himself on an almost immediate path of defiance against the Nazis, twice imprisoned for anti-Nazi protests. Upon his third imprisonment, he feels called by God to join the elite SS troops and become, as he puts it, “God’s Spy”—a moniker Søren Kierkegaard gave himself a century earlier.
The Edie and Elmira Show: A One-act Play
Paul D. Patton
In the summer of 1864, an entrepreneur built an observation tower just outside the walls of the federal prison at Elmira, New York. He charged 15 cents for citizens to climb the tower and observe the Confederate prisoners below. Ginger cakes and drinks were sold. The venture paid for itself in a matter of weeks. Then winter came.
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Oral Interpretation: A Creative Performance Approach
Richard T. Young
As a theatre artist, the author suggests that Oral Interpretation, as a performance art, requires a creative performance approach. In this context, creativity and discovery are the key factors in the preparation and rehearsal process, unlike other approaches that emphasize literary analysis. This book is a comprehensive guide for teachers, youth leaders, geriatric activity providers, and community theater groups interested in the art, and science, of Oral Interpretation.
The Joy of Narnia: Teaching Laughter to Middle School Students
Terry Lindvall, Cary Joseph, and Caroline Joseph
A university professor and two young middle school English teachers weave recent educational research on humor with examples from C.S. Lewis’s Narnia Chronicles to make a compelling case for teaching teachers how to relax and enjoy the wild things in the classroom. Using Lewis’s foundational ideas on the four sources of laughter—Joy, Fun/Play, the Joke Proper, and Flippancy—they illustrate how children begin to lose their gentle and affiliative laughter through the middle school years, often becoming mean, cruel, and cynical, and then suggest ways to counter the downward trajectory and revive the joy and fun of learning.
“Uncle Bud” Robinson: Enduring Lessons from an Early Twentieth-Century Simple Folk Preacher
Abram J. Book
Reuben V. “Uncle Bud” Robinson, born a moonshiner’s son in Tennessee and converted under the preaching of a traveling circuit rider while working as a Texas ranch hand, persevered to become the Mark Twain of the early twentieth-century holiness movement. The author examines how “Uncle Bud’s” preaching brought together people from all walks of life—wealthy and poor, educated and uneducated, urban and rural—under the banner of holiness and how such communication can be instructive to pastors and Christians today struggling to find unifying messages in a deeply divided religious and political landscape.
Habits of the High-Tech Heart: Living Virtuously in the Information Age
Quentin J. Schultze
In this updated and expanded edition, Schultze and invited guests consider the moral and social costs of today’s sophisticated technology, arguing that the benefits of a cyberculture can be better appreciated by refocusing on the traditional Judeo-Christian values of discernment, moderation, wisdom, humility, authenticity, and diversity. Contributors reflect on Schultze’s original offering —first published more than 20 years ago—and evaluate its arguments in light of today’s fast-paced, ever-changing technological landscape.