In July a new book, Understanding Evangelical Media: The Changing Face of Christian Communication, was released by InterVarsity Press. The collective work of “over forty scholars and communication professionals,” according to its website description, it includes three short breakout essays my yours truly. Edited by Quentin Schultze and Robert H. Woods, the book tries to get a handle on the way the diverse evangelical community uses various mass media as well as other communication forms like worship music and public relations. The book is intended for use in classrooms studying this ever changing phenomenon as well as just anyone interested in how the faithful have adapted what many in that community once considered worldly tools to communicate with both churched and secular audiences. The site linked to above has much added material that enhances the book itself and introduces you to the book much better than I could.
One of my local newspapers, the south Florida Sun-Sentinel ran an article last Sunday about the book with interviews with Schultze, a Palm Beach Atlantic Colleague and myself. Hope you enjoy it.
