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Gutenberg and the Digital Revolution

Going Digital The rise of the Internet’s World Wide Web in the mid-1990s launched an unlikely hero into the media spotlight: Johann Gutenberg, the 15th-century inventor of movable printing type and technological forefather of the vernacular Bible. Reporters, Internet columnists and even some scholars began parading Gutenberg before the public as a kind of poster [...]

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Writing a Faithful Resume

I recently co-wrote a book primarily for college students and college graduates on the topic of writing resumes and cover letters: How to Write Powerful College Student Resumes & Cover Letters. It’s receiving terrific reviews, for which my colleague, Bethany J. Kim, and I are very grateful. The book’s accompanying website includes excerpts and an [...]

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The Audacity of Prophetic Truth

(Note: This essay is my foreword to a terrific book on media criticism: Robert H. Woods, Jr., and Paul D. Patton, Prophetically Incorrect: A Christian Introduction to Media Criticism (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos, 2010).   The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813–55) had a knack for irritating the state church. He claimed an unusual gift: namely, perceiving [...]

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Human Communication as a Gift

When I began studying communication in college I discovered various theories about the origins of human beings’ communicative capacity. I was intrigued — and still am. We don’t know precisely how human language “evolved,” but we can discuss one interesting thought: Communication is a gift. You and I did not create our communicative abilities. We [...]

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Human Communication as an Act of Faith

Each time I listen, speak, read, or write, I assume that something positive could occur. I assume that I will be able to understand and to be understood. I believe that my utterances, like those of others, are worth the time and effort. Why? This is one of the great questions about human communication: Why [...]

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Speak Only if You Can Improve Upon the Silence

Why did the monastics sometimes take vows of silence.   Is silence better than speech?  Is there anything fundamentally wrong with speech? It’s probably true that if we are busily talking we might be less inclined to listen to others. To observe them. To pay attention to them. Monologue does not guarantee intimacy. (Does dialogue? That’s [...]

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