Session 1: 9:00am-10:15am

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

9:00-10:15am 

Session 1A

Azalea Room

Rhetoric of the Christian Left: Religious Communication for the Greater Regard

Chair: Jim Vining, Governors State University

Respondent: Bethany Mannon, Appalachian State University

Material Rhetorics of the Episcopal Church, Elaine Schnabel, Weber State University

Feminine Metaphors: Sarah Bessey’s Enthusiastically Feminine Rhetorical Style for Christians on the Left, Sarah Kornfield, Hope College

Cornel West: A Progressive Christian Voice for the 20th and 21st Centuries, and the Relevance of Prophetic Pragmatism in Religious Rhetoric, Theon Hill, Wheaton College

Repenting Toward a Greater Love: William Barber’s Use of Public Repentance in His Pride Month Sermon, Joshua Miller, Independent Scholar

Resignifying Discipleship: Sr. Joan Chittister’s Pathways of Dissent, “Anti”cedents, and Arguments for Women’s Priestly Ordination, Christopher Oldenburg, Illinois College

Session 1B
St. Charles Room

Current Lesser Regard Issues That Negatively Impact the Church from Working in Unity to Accomplish the Greater Regard: Church Ministry

Chair: Cecil Kramer, Jr., Liberty University

Co-Chair: John R. Katsion, Northwest Missouri State University

A Shallow Ocean? Seeker Sensitive Worship, Chris Underation, Gordon College

The “Go Home” Controversy: Beth Moore, John MacArthur, and Pastoring in Regards to Gender, Gregory Knight, William Carey University

Claims of the KJV Only Adherents: High Regard or Idolatry? Cecil Kramer, Liberty University

Sermonic Apologia: An Ideological Criticism of Public Opinion and Pastoral Responsibility in Alistair Begg’s Sermon, “Compassion vs. Condemnation,” John Dunkle, Liberty University

Session 1C
Canal Room

The Chronicles of Narnia: Communication with Greater Regard

Chair: Jeffrey Miller, University of Memphis

Explaining the Popularity of “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,” Steven Beebe, Texas State University

Entering the Jovial World: A Pedagogy of Narnian Laughter, Terry Lindvall, Virginia Wesleyan University

The Lion’s Roar: Lewis, Blake, Lacan, and the Tapestry of Meaning, Vasupradha Srikrishna, Madras Christian College

Session 1D 

Bourbon Room

Works in Progress-1

Chair: Andrea Terry, Sacramento State University

Ontological Disobedience and Decolonization: A Path into an Ontological Turn for Communication Studies, Naaman Wood, St. Paul College

Joel Osteen Pastors America, Reginald Bell, Jr., Monmouth College

God, Send Me to City Hall: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Tyre Nichols Religious Rhetoric by Pastor-Scholar-Activist Rev. Andre E. Johnson, PhD, Christopher A. House, Ithaca College

Evangelicals for Israel: The Study of Rhetorical Influences on Evangelical Israel-Related Ideologies, Abigail Schroeder and Jodeyah Mills, Liberty University

Using Communication Climate Theory and Muted Group Theory in Analyzing “Holy Sexuality Week” (HSW),  Amelia Little, Abilene Christian University