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New Book Coming 11/15/2024

Speak Lord, Your Servant is Listening

Reflections on Faithful Communication in a Digital Age

In step with the Spirit, how can we communicate faithfully as we encounter one another online?

Communicating faith is about living it, and sharing it with others, in word, and witness of life. These days, many people find themselves navigating the joys and struggles of life through screens and scrolling digital devices. As pilgrims on the journey, we are called to be intentional about how we share our stories and may wonder how our presence in digital spaces invites faithfulness. How can we communicate authentically as we encounter one another online? In Speak Lord, Your Servant Is Listening, pastoral theologian Daniella Zsupan-Jerome invites readers on a retreat—rooted in the Benedictine tradition—that promotes a spirituality of communication built on listening, engagement with the Word, and hospitality to others.

Intended as a devotional resource for all faithful communicators, Speak Lord, Your Servant Is Listening is a lectio divina-based guide that invites prayer and reflection around the theme of communication in the Bible. Through the lens of Scripture, readers will discover what each selected passage reveals about communication, and in particular, the realities of digital culture today. It is for anyone seeking a more life-giving way of being connected with one another faithfully out of a sense of Spirit and communion.

Reviews:

"With this collection of timely and prayerful reflections, Dr. Zsupan-Jerome provides more than insight into a spiritual dilemma of our digital age. She offers a rehumanizing invitation to practice pausing, lingering with the word of God, and reorienting the way we communicate toward building up the Body of Christ. Imagine a world in which we more genuinely 'listen with the ear of our heart' and 'share our presence with one another.' That vision begins here."

Samuel Rahberg, author of Enduring Ministry: Toward a Lifetime of Christian Leadership

"A necessary edition to the growing library of communications spirituality! Encased in a monastic framework, Daniella’s Scripture-based reflections on our digital culture challenge readers to consider intentionality in the digital experience and prayerfully reflect on whether communication encounters lead to authentic communion. At the same time, she proposes ways to maintain a constant relational presence online as faithful communicators of God's creative love."

Sr. Nancy Usselmann, FSP, director of Pauline Media Studies

"Amid the fake news and the breaking news, the gossip, the memes and the commentary that comprise so much of modern communications, Daniella Zsupan-Jerome has provided us all with the means of taking a deep breath. This book is a series of mini retreats for anyone in the communications business. By listening to God’s Word and reflecting on how God communicates with us, Daniella invites us to reflect on how we communicate with each other."

Greg Erlandson, Former Director, Catholic News Service

“This beautiful and necessary book shows us how to inject our increasingly divisive digital world with a sense of peace and hope, and it invites us to withdraw from the 24/7 connectivity now and then to interact with God so we may better interact with others.”

Mary DeTurris Poust, writer, communications specialist, and digital content creator

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Connected Toward Communion

We are living in a cultural shift: digital communication has reshaped the way we interact with one another, form and maintain relationships, and gain knowledge and understanding. How might we go about communicating the Good News of Jesus Christ in the midst of these changes to an emerging culture shaped by digital media? This question addresses the whole church, from the baptized faithful to pastoral ministers and the institutional structures that serve the church locally and globally.

In Connected toward Communion, Daniella Zsupan-Jerome traces the Roman Catholic Church's contemporary thought and practice of social communication, from Inter Mirifica of the Second Vatican Council to the church's approach to communicating faith through social networking today. Throughout, a key question forms a common thread: how might we form pastoral ministers today for serving the church in the digital age and beyond?

2015 Catholic Press Association Award

Honorable Mention for First Time Author

Review in National Catholic Reporter here.

Review in Church Life Journal here.

Review in Theological Studies here.

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