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Here are some further resources that may be helpful as you prepare to participate in the Communication Arts track at Following Christ — or simply for carefully considering the work of God in this field.

First of all, don't miss our General Resources page, which lists websites, books, organizations, and more that may interest any Christian in the academy and marketplace, regardless of discipline or field of endeavor.

Recommended Readings By Track Presenters

Arnett, Ronald C. . "Dialogic Civility as Pragmatic Ethical Praxis: An Interpersonal Metaphor for the Public Domain." Communication Theory 11 (2001): 315-338.

Arnett, Ronald C. "Interpersonal Praxis: The Interplay of Religious Narrative, Historicality, and Metaphor." Journal of Communication and Religion 21 (1998): 141-163.

Arnett, Ronald C. "Rogers and Buber: Similarities, yet Fundamental Differences." Western Journal of Speech Communication 46, no. 4 (Fall 1982): 358-372.

Arnett, Ronald C. "Self-fulfillment and Interpersonal Communication?" Religious Communiation Today 1, no. 1 (September 1978): 23-28.

Lessl, Thomas. "The Galileo Legend." New Oxford Review, (June 2002): 27-33.

Lessl, Thomas. “Darwinism, Dawkinism & Christian Accommodationism.” New Oxford Review (February 2000): 28-33.

Lessl Shively, R. M., & Thomas Lessl. "The Abolition of Value in the Classroom: Some Observations From the Language Arts." Christian Scholar’s Review (Winter 1999): 347-360.

Lessl, Thomas. "The Galileo Legend as Scientific Folklore." Quarterly Journal of Speech 85 (Spring 1999): 146-168.

Lessl, Thomas. "Intelligent Design: A Look at the Literature." Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 (Winter 1999): 617-636.

Lessl, Thomas. "Toward a Definition of Religious Communication: Scientific and Religious Uses of Evolution." Journal of Communication and Religion 16, no. 2 (1993): 127-138.

Lessl, Thomas. "Francis Bacon and the Biblical Origins of the Scientific Ethos.” Journal of Communication and Religion 15, no. 2 (September 1992): 87-98.

Lessl, Thomas. "The Priestly Voice." Quarterly Journal of Speech 75 (1989): 183-197.

Lessl, Thomas. "Heresy, Orthodoxy, and the Politics of Science." Quarterly Journal of Speech 74 (1988): 18-34.

Articles

Schmalzbauer, John A. "Telling Catholic and Evangelical Stories in American Journalism: The Impact of the Religious Imagination." U. S. Catholic Historian 20 (2002): 25-44.

Books

Schultze, Quentin J. Communicating for Life: Christian Stewardship in Community and Media. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker, 2000.

Schultze, Quentin J. Habits of the High-Tech Heart: Living Virtuously in the Information Age. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2002.

Simon, C. J. The Disciplined Heart: Love, Destiny, and Imagination. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997.

Sommerville, C. John. How the News Makes Us Dumb: The Death of Wisdom in an Information Society. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1999.

Further Bibliography

Eidenmuller, Michael. "Rhetoric & Christianity: A Working Bibliography." Americanrhetoric.com.

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