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News, Prophetic Voice, and Digital Media

Columnist Charley Honey of the Grand Rapids Press interviewed me about the role of news media in providing a prophetic voice for local communities. We had a discussion about this years ago and Charley thought it was timely to return to our conversation in the light of the challenges facing print newspapers and the rise [...]

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Religious Communication Scholarship

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This is a brief audio recording of a panel presentation I made at the National Communication Association convention in Chicago on November 13, 2009. My comments address the state of “religious” (or “religion”) scholarship on communication and, conversely, the state of communication scholarship about religion. I also offer a “wish list” for future research about [...]

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Faith and Communication Technology

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[Audio clip: view full post to listen] This is a slightly edited (to remove local references and to reduce the length) version of  a speech I gave at the “Emerging Technologies & Media Mythologies” conference held at the Prince Conference Center at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan on October 5, 2009. I address three [...]

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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

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“ 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.  [...]

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Interview with Barbara Trepagnier about Racist Communication

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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 [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Dr. Trepagnier suggests that “silent racism”—racism by people who are simplistically labeled as “not racist”—fosters institutional racism.  She believes that heightened [...]

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