The late nineteenth century was a dramatic time for changes in the role of women in society. As they fought for the right to speak in public and to vote, women established many new public spaces for their own participation. Women spoke as prophets for transformation in an unequal system. When speakers see a need for change, especially due to crisis, their voices often take on a prophetic quality. The jeremiad, as a rhetorical genre, demonstrates the prophetic voice. We hear speakers today using this form in response to pandemics, environmental issues, political crises, among many other circumstances. This book examines the work of Antoinette Brown Blackwell, the first woman to be ordained as a protestant minister in the United States in 1853. Brown Blackwell modeled the prophetic voice in her determination to prevent the legalization of prostitution. The examination of her rhetoric for the Social Purity Movement underscores the significance of the jeremiad as a genre for illuminating crisis communication, especially in a Christian context.

The Prophetic Voice: Antoinette Brown Blackwell’s Jeremiads in the Social Purity Movement

History

Spies, Barbara S.

World

Integratio Press

At a time when Christian voices in higher education are facing increased persecution and marginalization, the Christian authors of this collection who teach in public universities share their faith-learning integration journeys including their practical, theoretical, and biblically based strategies for teaching, administration, and doing research. Authors explain how they actively subvert secular worldviews that marginalize biblical truth, promote incivility, and discourage love of neighbor. At the same time, they explore pro-active, bridge-building and transformational methods for cultivating biblical absolutes and Christian virtue in ways that prompt evangelistic encounters. The book adds to ongoing and robust faith-learning conversations in higher education by offering additional and "out-of-the-box" approaches for helping students and others think Christianly, and deeply, about areas of interest in ways that redeem culture at local and national levels.

Professing Christ: Christian Tradition and Faith-learning Integration in Public Universities

Religion & Spirituality

Pettigrew, Jonathan

Woods Jr., Robert H.

Christian Books & Bibles

This book aims to change the Christian conversation regarding civility, from techniques about achieving civility to the conditions necessary for civility to exist. As such, the authors in this volume explore the work of Dr. Calvin Troup, president of Geneva College, and his insights regarding humility and hospitality—presented at a keynote address at a conference—and interrogate the ideas that serve as its foundation. The goal of the book is to create a conversation across the broad spectrum of Christian experience and voices from within secular culture in order to explore, in a robust fashion, the possibilities for hospitality, humility, and ultimately civility.

Humility and Hospitality: Changing the Christian Conversation on Civility

Wood, Naaman

Connable, Sean

God's claim on the life of a Christian theater artist is no different than God's claim on the life of a preacher, teacher, plumber, carpenter, or bank clerk. But the call to the world of theater can be a dilemma for those who follow Christ. The siren song of theater is alluring and powerful. To survive in and influence the theater world, it takes a Christian whose heart, mind, and soul are well focused on the Lord of the Cosmos. This slim volume is an effort to encourage those who want to celebrate Christ in and through the world of theater. The author spent his adult life creating theater via amateur and professional settings. A follower of Christ from an early age, he has found many arenas where working from a Christian worldview and pursuing theater arts blended well and, at times, bumped up against each other somewhat harshly. This collection of devotionals tells those stories.

And the Word Became Flesh: Devotionals for Theater Artists

Literature & Fiction

Young, Richard T.

Dramas & Plays

Gerstein: A Full-length Play in Two Acts

Patton, Paul D.

Why does the family matter? How can the family truly flourish with so many different opinions about what family means and what role it plays in society? How can we strengthen the family to reflect God's design for it? Family Communication and the Christian Faith: An Introduction and Exploration (Integratio Press, 2023) provides answers to these questions. This book examines the family from a biblical worldview while integrating theories and practices from diverse academic disciplines (psychology, theology, family studies, sociology) with special emphasis on how communication creates and sustains healthy, rewarding, and godly families. An Instructor's Resource and Teaching Guide is available. Available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other major distributors and retailers.

Family Communication and the Christian Faith: An Introduction and Exploration

Parenting & Relationships

Badzinski, Diane M.

Parenting

Playwriting: A Christian Perspective

Elvgren, Gillette

The author brings a career of academic and professional directing experience to inform readers how to select, prepare, and mount a production for the stage. At the same time, he expresses the disciplines, joys, and rigors of the faith-based walk as a framework for this creative journey. The author's exploration of the aesthetic requisites for stage directing are combined with a consideration of what it means to be a practicing artist under God's creative mandate. He demonstrates how one's worldview as a believer in Jesus Christ finds reflection in a world of visual and aural metaphors within a stage production.

Directing Theater: A Christian Perspective

Communicating for Life: Christian Stewardship in Community and Media

Schultze, Quentin J.

Just Words: Lessons of Ancient Education, Classical Rhetoric, and Pagan Religion for a Post-Christian World

Williams, Mark A. E.

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