I ran across the following video from a tweet. I have talked a good deal about semiotics here as well as the importance of images in communication. The beginning of this video notes this reality. This video also provides a frank and honest...
In the previous two posts in this series, I described the declining educational system and its impact on younger adults. Today I want to provide suggestions to help us communicate better in light of this decline. 1. Communicate in short stories. I...
I was talking recently with a young college student finishing his first year at a community college. He was doing a paper and I asked how the paper was going. He told me he was about half way through, it was due in a couple of days and he had run...
With this post I begin a series on the impact education, knowledge and cultural trends should have on communication and spiritual formation in the church. In this post, I talk about the knowledge deficit in American, especially in young adults. In...
In the past three or four months, a diverse set of events and news reports have given me a different perspective into the failing educational system in the US. It is a travesty that two-thirds of Wisconsin 8th graders cannot read despite having the...
Made to Stick is a book that will help you communicate ideas. And the traits or principles that help us do that include Simplicity, Unexpectedness, Credibility, Concreteness, Emotions, and Stories. In this post, we will begin to look at...
We are now continuing our look at Lamin Sanneh’s book, Whose Religion in Christianity? The Gospel Beyond the West. We continue in this section where Sanneh writes in a more question and answer format. This second section of questions form...
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKl0tb3VmfQ Taryn Simon exhibits her startling take on photography — to reveal worlds and people we would never see otherwise. She shares two projects: one documents otherworldly locations typically kept secret...
The sixth principle from the Made to Stick is also the first principle that professional communication coach, Lynn Scarborough, says was part of Jesus¢â‚¬â„¢ communication style.‚ That principle is stories.‚ Stories work because they touch people...
Over the next few weeks we will spend some time working through The Big Idea: focus the message, multiply the impact. The book is part of the Leadership Network Innovation Series. It is written by Dave Ferguson, Jon Ferguson, and Eric Bramlett, who...