Everyday Sabbath: How to Lead Your Dance with Media and Technology in Mindful and Sacred Ways

The authors, writing as scholars of communication and media, demonstrate how God's great gifts of media and technology can rob us of everyday Sabbath and impede spiritual growth if not faithfully stewarded through a process described as mindful media attachment. Mindful media attachment helps to promote the "holy habits" of sacred intentionality, sacred interiority, and sacred identity. These "three sacreds," which arise from a proper understanding of the "grammar and language" of media and technology, ultimately allow us to avoid treating media and technology as ends in and of themselves and to avoid divided affections that drain energy, purpose, and kingdom service.

Paul D. Patton is Professor Emeritus of Communication and Media at Spring Arbor University in Michigan. He is also an ordained minister and trained counselor. He was on the pastoral staff at Trinity Church in Metro Detroit from 1978-1993, where he founded Trinity House Theater, an experiment in the integration of Christian faith and the theater arts. He is the author of over thirty produced stage plays, radio plays, and performance essays.


Robert H. Woods, Jr. is the Executive Director for the Christianity and Communication Studies Network (www.theccsn.com). He has taught in Christian higher education for more than twenty years. He is the editor or author of over a dozen books. He resides in Washington state with his wife, Rebekah.