Protected: Audio Lectures

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Faith + Technology + Communication = Baseball

This video, shot on a baseball field, compares baseball to all organized human activities. In a sense, life is like a game. And games are like life (communicatively speaking).

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Communication Theories Worsen Communication

“ Our existing models of communication are less an analysis than a contribution to the chaos of modern culture, and in important ways we are paying the penalty for the long abuse of fundamental, communicative processes in the service of politics, trade, and therapy.”1
This is a wonderful book that I reread at least annually.  Carey [...]

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Interview with Barbara Trepagnier about Racist Communication

I recorded this audio interview with Barbara Trepagnier, author of the book Silent Racism, on October 9, 2008, in Grand Rapids, MI. Duration: 13 min 01 sec
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Dr. Trepagnier suggests that “silent racism”—racism by people who are simplistically labeled as “not racist”—fosters institutional racism.  She believes that heightened race awareness is more important in changing racial [...]

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Cross-Cultural Communication Requires Cultural Roots

“I do believe that it is precisely rootedness which gives you ease in multilingual expression or participation in dancing intercourse with very different cultures.  Only when one’s roots are cut or denied or considered as something secondary does the search for the so-called identity, for some kind of inner fitting of the individual upon [...]

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Tips 6-10 for Faithful Nonfiction Book Writers

By Quentin J. Schultze
I have written over a dozen nonfiction books and am working on a few more.  I also lead workshops on writing faith-related nonfiction books for publication.  Earlier I posted tips 1-5.  Here are five more of the tips that I cover in my workshops.  I hope you find them helpful.
#6 Serve a [...]

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