For those of you who were present at the audioconference last night, thanks for your patience in the first 7 or 8 minutes, when the technicians were trying to get the system to work. And thanks also for your contributions to the discussion.
You need to write two blog posts in the next two weeks, one of them due by Monday, 20 September, and one of them due by Monday, 27 September. These will be the last blog posts required for this paper. I’m giving you four choices of topics. Pick one of the four for this week and one for next week:
1. Read one of the additional readings at the end of the course book that focus on visual communication. Pick out one sentence you think has implications for congregations, type that sentence in your blog post and comment on the implications for congregations that you see. R 35 has two chapters in it, a long chapter on visual persuasion in advertising and a short chapter on “the more you know, the more you see.” You may read either one of those chapters. Or you may read R39 on symbol, metaphor and image.
2. We talked a little bit last night about the overlap of four concepts: metaphor, story, mystery and image. I would welcome more comments about the relationship between these four concepts in congregational communication.
3. I would welcome some discussion about the role those four concepts – metaphor, story, mystery and image – play in evangelism. We talked last night about communication inside and outside a congregation, but we didn’t talk about evangelism, so I’d like to invite some reflection in blog posts about the communication components of evangelism.
4. Cormode writes about three kinds of stories: public, communal and personal narratives (p. 298 of the coursebook). I invite you to reflect on the role of these three kinds of narratives in evangelism. Do we overemphasize one of these kinds of narrative and neglect one or two others? Why might all three of these kinds of narratives be important in evangelism?
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