By Liz Sparks Christian art. Hmm…for many, this phrase leaves a bad taste in the mouth. We’re not sure what to do with it, whether it accurately portrays our work and the work of others, whether it is something to which we aspire or strongly avoid. Madeleine L’Engle struggled ...
By: Samantha Seductive and persuasive in its ways, public speaking has the capability to draw a large audience. Despite the power within public speaking, it still manages to rank to be people’s greatest fear, followed only by the fear of death. It seems to be a natural gift and as Quintilian, Roman rhetorician, once said, “Without natural gifts, technical rules are useless”. So it is a gift that is then refined by some helpful guidelines which ...
By Liz Sparks “I have a dream…” “Four score and seven years ago…” “December 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy…” Throughout centuries, people have addressed the public with strong words, crafting famous speeches that have affected many lives. Martin Luther King Jr. influenced audiences non-violently to love brothers of other races, Abraham Lincoln led his country through a great civil war, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt pulled discouraged Americans ...
Welcome to the genesis of a student journal of Christian communication and culture created as a project of Moody Bible Institute students for the course “Biblical Perspectives of Media and Culture.”