Civil Discourse as Kinship
One of the greatest blessings of living in the Western world is freedom of speech. While we often experience tension and disagreement […]
Tag: communication
Healthy Communication
Linguist Deborah Tannen once wrote that male-female communication is like cross-cultural communication. She explained that boys and girls grow up in their […]
A Word to the Wise Guy or “You say Tonto, I say Toronto . . .”
“So now we’re supposed to create a class website that gives daily updates on assignments, grades, and student behavior,” muttered math teacher […]
Care-Full Words: Leveraging the Power to Deepen or Divide
Words. Words have power. Words echo in our ears and sink into our hearts. It doesn’t matter how hard the outer shell […]
Healthy Communication Among Teachers
To contribute to the theme of this issue of CEJ, our panel decided to tackle the issue of teacher-teacher communication. We began […]
Bad Language, Telling the Truth, and What the Commandments Say about Communicating
What Middle School Students Think I say to the middle school students, “So, what does the Bible say about language use?” “Don’t […]
What They Hear When We Speak
Among the teachers I remember gratefully is my history professor, Dr. Poland. No doubt I owe to him much of what I know […]
Speaking the Truth in Love
“They have healed the brokenness of my people superficially, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ but there is no peace.” Jeremiah 6:14 Have you ever […]