My Point of View My biblical perspective on radio is something that I, personally, am still working through. Recently it has been a struggle to decide what radio looks like for the Christian, what it ought to look like, and whether that is true for every Christian in radio and how that differentiates from person to person. Are Christians called to be just in Christian radio in the traditional sense of the term? Or are ...
Tonight I had the tremendous privilege of being a guest on the MCR radio show “The Letter M”. This show explores various areas of entertainment like movies, songs, and literature and discusses the worldviews presented in them and how they relate to our lives as Christians. Not to give a shameless plug for an MCR show, but seriously, these guys are conquering and discussing a lot of the topics we have dealt with in class, ...
Led by self-proclaimed atheist, Ira Glass, This American Life, a Chicago Public Radio show that tells stories about a given subject on their weekly broadcast, tackles the Christian culture in an episode called “A Teenagers Guide to God.” Glass and other co-journalists follow a youth group from Covenant Presbyterian Church in Chicago on a missions trip to West Virginia. Oddly enough, the youth group leader is a Moody grad. Read the transcript to the story here: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/147/transcript Someone ...
In America, repenting of sins and confessing the name of Jesus Christ does not always come with an expectation of the transformation of the mind and the supernatural process of becoming holy; it tends to come with the expectation of a transformation of cultural taste. Instead of celebrating the kingdom of heaven that she is to inherit and the reality of the Body of Christ that she has been grafted into, the new believer is ...
What Marshall McLuhan has to do with Jesus Christ II Corinthians 4:7-10 “But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our ...
News Corp. owns over 27 television stations and over 150 newspapers. Time Warner has over 100 subsidiaries including CNN, Time Magazine, and The CW. In a democratic society, the most powerful tool is the media. The media shapes our beliefs, changes our perspectives, and informs us on which choices to make at the ballot box. It can shape public opinion, create heroes, villains, and change elections. The media decides which voices are heard – or silenced, which issues ...
Creative Matters is a call to arms for all of us who endeavor to create beautiful, transcendent and transformational experiences in and around the Church. It’s a field guide of sorts…written by Creatives for Creatives… for those who work in the trenches of the “Create-On-Demand” challenges that every weekend brings. It’s a fresh perspective on the process, people, and purpose surrounding Creativity. It’s an invitation to live and work in a way that is both ...
II Corinthians 3:3- “And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.” God intended for the Gospel to be communicated directly from person to person, that is, through relationship. The thread which is woven throughout the story of God’s redemption of His once perfect creation is relationship—is love. God ...
Stryper – Calling on You Since we were talking about Stryper in class the other day and not everybody was familiar with them, I thought I would share this music video. I strongly encourage taking a look at their youtube page whether for laughs, a journey down memory lane, or just to see what who this band is. Stryper was hugely popular back in the day, and not only among Christians. In fact, they had several ...
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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.”