I teach and discuss the Christian worldview through articles and posts, and I remain in awe of the power of the written word. Therefore, many within the Christian world, both in the past and today, have worked to communicate truth in words via the printed page or on the screen. As I help writers in…
Category: Media
An Offline Principle for an Online World
Along with the command to love God with our hearts is the directive to love our neighbour as ourselves (Matthew 22:37-40). Before you publish that post, send the tweet, or share the message, take a second and consider if you are adding value to your online neighbour. Is your post edifying? Would that tweet stir up the right emotions in your followers? How about that message you are about sharing on WhatsApp? Is it genuine? Does it fairly represent the situation?
Wakanda: A modern African dream
Wakanda is more than a literary setting, it is the cinematic vision of modern Africa, a longing for people of African descent.
Breaking News, Global News
An interesting feature of our modern society is that journalistic curiosity known as the ‘breaking news’. This refers to news events that are currently developing or “breaking”, a freshly occurring story that is considered significant enough to warrant immediate attention. Often, an ongoing programme or report is interrupted to allow for this urgent announcement or…
The Gospel according to Hollywood
A theme of salvation runs through several Hollywood movies. From Maleficent to Snow White and the Huntsman to Independence Day, there is a common story. In spite of the different plots and characters, one finds an unmistakable unifying theme which basically goes like this: Something is wrong with the world. It could be a spell cast…
What BBNaija says about the Nigerian mind
A few weeks ago, I got a call from Multichoice, the cable TV provider. My subscription had expired several weeks earlier and I had not renewed. The agent who called was eager to know when I would likely renew. In a bid to persuade me to promptly reactivate my account, he started mentioning some programmes…
Saving ‘Saving Private Ryan’
Can we deserve or earn grace? This is a question one is called to ponder in the classic war movie directed by Steven Spielberg. Saving Private Ryan was jointly released by DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures in 1998 to critical and popular acclaim. Nominated for 11 Academy Awards and winning five, it has been listed…
How can we Glorify God in the Digital sphere?
It’s no longer news that we live in a digital age – the Information era. Smartphone, Tablet, Browser, are some of our regular terminologies. In fact, we can hardly live five minutes without having to interact with some form of electronic or digital technology. And this digital space keeps evolving and expanding. From Clod computing,…
A world gone digital: Review of Media, Journalism, and Communication by Read Mercer Schuchardt
Photo by William Iven on Unsplash ‘Now is the time for Christians to take up a conscious awareness of the unconscious effects of media and communication technologies. Now is the time for the sleepers to awake.’ *Call it a digital detox, this volume is an attempt to guide Christians on thinking clearly about the modern world of media…
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