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		<title>The Program Guidebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 02:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are thrilled to release the latest version of the Communications Program Guidebook featuring a remarkable art project by Matt Snyder (Class of &#8217;13). Written for current students, this book provides an overview of the vision, culture, and function of the Moody Media Lab. The entire book can be seen and downloaded here. Select screen shots below:]]></description>
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		<title>Unseduced and Unshaken</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 02:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unseduced and Unshaken: The Place of Dignity in a Young Woman&#8217;s Choices by Dr. Rosalie de Rosset was brought to life by Moody faculty, Moody Publishers and Moody communication&#8217;s students working together. The project began when Katelyn McNeil (class of ‘11) approached Dr. de Rosset while taking the course Inside Publishing with Paul Santhouse (class of ‘81) from Moody Publishers. The assignment: find new publishing ideas. A reluctant Dr. de Rosset agreed to explore what would become Unseduced and Unshaken. Santhouse, a former student and now colleague of Dr. de Rosset, had been encouraging her to write a book for years. Now a team of his students – Corum Hughes (class of ‘12), Ashley High (class of ‘13), Lee Anna Smith (class of ‘13), Parker Hathaway (class of ‘14) – found themselves enthusiastically presenting Dr. de Rosset’s ideas to the Moody Publisher’s team. Three other writers joined the project to contribute chapters: Assistant Professor Pam MacRae, Stacy Parlee-Johnson (class of ‘03), and Linda Haines. Additionally, work from students in Dr. de Rosset’s Message Preparation course, Rachel Schlagel (class of ‘13) and Cara Coleman (class of ‘12), so impressed Dr. de Rosset that she invited them to contribute appendix chapters. A number of students conducted informal surveys that influenced Dr. de Rosset’s thinking. They included: Megan Toth (class of ‘14), Lana Norris (class of ‘13), and Haley Holik (Class of ‘12). From the publisher: You can’t afford to live casually, haphazardly. Half of us are simply born into it— the plethora of expectations of what it means to be a woman. It is so easy to imbibe an impoverished view of womanhood, one that hoists beauty and desirability above the more enduring traits of self-possession and dignity. We tend to live as divided selves, allowing our bodies and minds to drift to opposite poles and swapping our pursuit of God for lesser loves. This collection of essays is more than a call to modesty or chastity. It is a thoughtful provocation to speak well, read often, make choices that reflect the character of God, and even to establish a theology of play or leisure. Being intentional with your choices, cultivating your intellect, and taking seriously your voice will determine not only what kind of person you will be, but what kind of woman you are. As the publishing process proceeded the Media Lab’s Agency team was team was contracted to created a video trailer: Written by: Morgan Sutter (class of ‘12), Produced by: Emily Pine (class of ‘12), Director of Photography: John Mcpherson (class of ‘13), Audio: C.W. Allen, class of ‘13, Project Management: Alexis Berry (class of ‘12) and Crystal Anderson (class of ‘14). Rachel Rounds (class of ‘13) helped with the promotion of the book as a part of her position with Moody Publishers. For more information visit the publisher&#8217;s site (here).]]></description>
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		<title>Streetlights</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Streetlights Audio Bible: Streetlights is the world’s first urban audio Bible, combining the authentic Word of God in the New Living Translation with a dynamic musical score influenced by the cultures of the inner city. Top recording artists, accomplished music producers, and professional videographers unite to bring you word-for-word Scripture recited to industry standard, street-credible beats. Through this relevant and engaging format, people of all literacy levels will be able to hear, understand, and internalize the Word of God. About 8 years ago, Esteban Shedd (&#8217;06 Alum) led a small group bible study with high school youth. Going through a portion of text from the book of Acts Esteban realized that a majority of students in his small group couldn&#8217;t fluently read or comprehend the text from Acts. The following week Esteban recorded the text to mp3 and put a hip hop beat underneath the recording knowing that the students liked hip hop music. After playing the recording Esteban discovered that by hearing the scriptures the students were able understand and comprehend the scriptures just as fluently as reading the text. He even gave them a &#8220;pop quiz&#8221; of the text and they were answering various questions correctly! Esteban then tells friend Aaron Lopez (07&#8242; Alum) the basic idea of Streetlights: &#8220;Word for Word Scripture over Hip Hop Beats.&#8221; Fast forward to 2009/10: Esteban is hired by Chicago non profit GRIP Outreach for Youth to work full time in making Streetlights a reality. Later in that year Tyndale House Publishers and Humble Beast Records hear about Streetlights and agree to work in partnership with Streetlights. In 2011 Aaron Lopez is hired by GRIP Outreach for Youth to work along side Esteban for Streetlights. They begin working with various artists, producers and local Chicago church members to record the first volume of Streetlights. In February 2012 Streetlights&#8217; first volume is released: Divine DNA, which is Genesis 1-6 and the entire Gospel of John read word for word over Hip Hop music. The Audio for the first volume is completed. Streetlights is currently working on a video portion and a curriculum portion that will fully complete the first volume. The Moody Media Lab hopes to partner closely with Streetlights to serve this project and see it grow. Visit streetlightsbible.com for more information. You can download Volume One: Divine DNA for FREE! here. Streetlights: Psalm 73 from StreetlightsBible on Vimeo.]]></description>
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		<title>Moody Stories 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MML</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new student team stepped up to continue the Moody Stories project (see the first Moody Stories here) with incredibly powerful results. From conception, to production, to the musical score, these videos are created entirely by Moody students as an expression of their gratitude to donors and all the people who make their tuition paid education possible. Producer: Emily Pine (class of &#8217;12). Writer and assistant producer: Chip Cobbler (class of &#8217;13). Director of Photography: John McPherson (class of &#8217;13). Audio Engineer: Laura Ragan (class of &#8217;13). Editor: Luke Magnusson (class of &#8217;13).]]></description>
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		<title>Unfriend Yourself</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From an idea to a directed study, into the hands of students in a course on publishing, and through to publication by Moody Publishers – in many ways “Unfriend Yourself: Three Days to Detox, Discern, and Decide About Social Media” by Kyle Tennant (class of &#8217;11) represents the best of the Media Lab&#8217;s collaborative nature. Thoughts from the author: Unfriend Yourself was never intended to be a book; in fact, I never intended to become a social media skeptic. Unfriend Yourself actually began in Professor Kammerzelt&#8217;s office, as he advised me through a directed study on the use of social media in the church. I wanted to write a paper asking, &#8220;How should the church be using social media?&#8221; Brian encouraged me to write a paper asking, &#8220;Should the church be using social media?&#8221; Removing that one little word, how, though I didn&#8217;t know it at the time, would change the way I thought about social media, relationships, technology, and even the Gospel. I spent endless hours researching&#8211;reading books, articles, monographs, and more&#8211;but I always felt like a dog chasing a car. I could never &#8220;catch up&#8221; on my topic; for that matter, I wondered what I would do with it if I had. Eventually, my research (and endless conversations with (Prof K) culminated in a lengthy paper and a presentation to about 25 faculty members from various departments around Moody. A few months later, David Ulrich (class of &#8217;12) and a team of students working with Moody Publishers through the course “Inside Publishing” asked if they could pitch my book for potential publication. I agreed, nonchalantly. I figured it would be a fun project for them, doubting anything would come of it. But, in April of 2010, Moody Publishers approved the proposal. By August, I&#8217;d written the manuscript. Then, on January 1, 2012, the book was published. As I reflect back on the process two thoughts come to mind. The first, and most important, is this: the Lord promotes you. There were a few moments during this process that I thought, &#8220;Wow, this is really turning into something.&#8221; These were moments that I did not seek: I was humble and worked hard to get my ideas together into a presentable, respectable piece. The Lord took it form there to make a class assignment into a book. Second, you reap what you sow. You never know when an idea is going to explode. That&#8217;s why you have to work diligently on every project and every idea. More than half the battle of turning a class assignment into a book was taking it seriously, doing solid research, and clearly articulating and presenting my ideas. Hard work now can pay rich dividends later. Students collaborating: David Ulrich (class of &#8217;12): Acquisitions Editor; Marketing Execution; Back-cover Copywriter Followed the book through from beginning to end. Worked with Tennant to develop a table of contents, and served as his agent to the publishing house, defending the book in a pitch-meeting. Later, wrote back-cover copy...]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Tabailloux</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 19:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taken from Tim Tab&#8217;s website: Tim Tab is a Chicago Area wedding, portrait, and lifestyle photographer. He graduated in &#8217;08 from the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago with a BA in communications. His life dream would be to become an international photojournalist for publications such as National Geographic and Time Magazine. Based in Wheaton, IL, but originally from Grenoble France, he loves to work with all kinds of people and does his best to get the best out of anyone. He doesn&#8217;t care too much for cheesy poses but rather loves to get people being themselves, interacting, and making each other laugh. He enjoys faking russian accents, eating bacon, and watching indi-movies. He also gets a kick out of talking about himself in the third person right now&#8230; bless his heart. &#160; &#160; Here are a few of Tim&#8217;s editorial works: To see more of Tim&#8217;s photography, check out his website. Or &#8220;like&#8221; his Facebook page to show your support.]]></description>
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		<title>Footnote</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 19:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Footnote, an up and coming TV show soon to be regularly aired on WGN, was created by Moody student alumni currently working out of Lincoln, NE. While they admit this isn&#8217;t the most ideal place to be working, they have created a concept of story-telling through film that is undeniably intriguing. And despite the rural setting, Jon and Alicia Reisinger (Creator and Producers) and Tyler Huckabee (head writer), all Moody alum, have made their way back to Chicago to work with WGN. Kevin Mattison (Assistant Producer) is a current Moody student. In total they pitched their show to 37 stations, from Discovery Channel to ABC, and WGN is where they landed a weekly spot Fall 2011. A few episodes are also currently airing on varying dates on WGN, check out Footnote&#8217;s website for more information on the show, their video, and the current update on their blog. Story: SGT. Michael Goss from Footnote on Vimeo. Footnote was also recently featured online in Relevant Magazine]]></description>
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		<title>Tony Robledo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 03:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jenna Pirrie, staff writer of The Moody Standard Within Tony Robledo’s dorm room is a picture of the crucified hand of Christ made by hundreds of black-ink fingerprints, Robeldo’s fingerprints. The senior youth ministry major said, “Using my fingerprints, I have made this something where I identify with Christ,” illustrating with those words his faith-centered outlook on creativity and art. Robledo’s artistic mindset comes largely from being aesthetically driven and a visual learner. Those closest to him know that he is rarely satisfied to leave things the way they are, often looking for ways to alter them, or make them better entirely. He has dabbled in sketching, painting, sculpture, pottery, photography and jewelry making. “Anything artistic I can get my hands on, I’ll go for it,” he said. Having been raised by parents who actively cultivated his and his two sisters’ creative natures, Robledo never lacked for support in his passions. At Moody, his creative pursuits are primarily musical. Robledo first became interested in guitar when he decided to learn a song played often by his dad, and then realized dad didn’t actually play it very well. Robledo continued to teach himself and eventually to write his own music. Much of that music has not survived, but recently Robledo has been working more on writing music he will not want to toss. To make his songs more permanent, he has learned to write more honestly to reflect harder times in his life; he said when life is not going well, he feels the most honest with himself and his creating. He said he has learned to intentionally give away the hard times through art, instead of only writing lyrics of praise. “Then, when [God] is close to me, when he is near and very intimate to me,” Robledo shared, “I don’t try to put it into words or art or song…That is our sacred space.” Robledo has also found a niche designing posters around Moody for different groups on campus. As with guitar, everything he knows about graphic design is self-taught. He has a fondness for good design and a particular love for fonts. “I want to make things look beautiful,” he said. “We have a God who is creative, and as a result we ought to reflect that creativity in redemptive and in gospel-centered ways, ways that highlight the immensity and intensity of God’s beauty himself.” Robledo finds that both music and hands-on art can be therapeutic and worshipful. He encourages artists in his life to create things that no one else will ever see. He also encourages viewing creativity as a form of individual worship. When creating in this mindset, Robledo sees art as “bringing to the feet of God, my only really worthy audience, what he has laid on my heart.” Regarding his future, Robledo said, “I can’t imagine the rest of my life without doing ministry.” He sees a need for creativity in the church today, and is intrigued by the idea of incorporating beautiful...]]></description>
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		<title>Good and Evil</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout the history of art there has always been an ever present dichotomy of good and evil and how it is portrayed. Different eras of art almost always reveal what was happening historically, socially and religiously at the time of its creation. In certain periods the artist would paint the ground in a dark, downcast landscape and the sky would be lit up with the light of the heavens; clearly showing the supernatural, and where good ultimately was found. Architects built flying buttresses and perfected stained glass windows to lift our eyes to heaven, to God, and to His glory. Things started to get a little more fuzzy when we entered in to impressionism, surrealism, and the rise of contemporary and modern art. Darwin and Kant came onto the scene, and with the changing beliefs of the world around us, also came the change in art. Christians have reacted to these theological, philosophical and scientific changes in a variety of ways. Finding the balance between rejection and relevance has been difficult. If anyone should have a voice in the battle of good and evil, though, it is Christ followers. 1 John 2:8 &#8220;Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining.&#8221; Our awareness to evil should not be less because we hold the truth within us, however, it should be acknowledged, sensed and revealed. As light, we do not need to shy away from evil, we must proclaim our truth and pass it on in every way. Throughout every era, movement and historical happening our story has, at the core, remained the same. If we look at all of time, our story of good triumphs over evil. The cross covers all. Should this not be reflected in all of our art? Must we return to the bright heavens and religious overtones of the Renaissance? Not necessarily. To show truth in our art can take a million different faces. The truth of goodness is very good, yet good is not good without evil. A God of love is not so loving without also a God of wrath. Let us never forget that these two coexist; they are not equal, and we can always have the confidence of light within us. Depravity will certainly come through our work if we are honest artists. What I appreciate about Vinsie&#8217;s painting is the contrast between the woman and the background she is set against. All around her is dark and lifeless. Nothing fills the shapes or gives them purpose. They are blank and void. And the woman, she brings life to the shapes. She is made up of the shapes and designs. When you look at the formation of her body, the color that fills her is color that fills the shapes that are already there. This woman is made up of the world around her. Yet she is also completely unique, and utterly...]]></description>
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		<title>Life-Giving Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons I write about artists, and their art, is to return the favor. What do I mean? Artists have been creating, writing, shooting, filming, painting, sketching, and speaking forth their art for as long as we ourselves were spoken into life. Whether they were creating for themselves, for arts sake, for a client, for the church, or because they couldn&#8217;t express themselves in any other way, art is everywhere around us. How often are they acknowledged, though? When our children color a picture, we proudly display it on our fridge. When they write a simple poem, along with a stick drawing of the family dog, we show our neighbors and call our sisters &#8211; look, listen to what my child made! Rejoicing in their freedom of expression. Our church Sunday schools are full of little artists, it would not be a Sunday school lesson without an Arts and Crafts time. Somewhere, in the midst of our adolescent years as we move into adulthood, our childlike freedom of expression and creativity wavers. Insecurity and fear and awareness of the world around us keeps us from being the creative hearts we are meant to be. We play it safe. Risk-taking is just that, a risk. Especially when our self-image is on the line, a risk is just too much to take. Now, this is nothing new. At the same time as I can&#8217;t propose solutions, I also don&#8217;t want to blame shift. Sometimes in a world where people are scared to be known, lacking vulnerability and honesty of self &#8211; a passive voice is just white noise. It might even be worse than that, it might only add to the negative, poor self-esteem that already exists in almost every one of us. What is needed is active people. Active voices. Active life-giving affirmation. Most of us would happily admit that art can be life-giving. How are we giving life back to the artists? Do you remember how it felt at show-and-tell time in Kindergarten when your colored- in crayon picture was admired? Or maybe you have a different story, of rejection, of denial. I hope you can remember a time when your art was cherished; from anything to an excellent business plan, to a painstakingly difficult math problem solved, to a prized sunset captured by a photographer &#8211; praise should be given. My goal is not to feed hungry egos and laud humanity for marvel alone. I believe there is indeed a place for life-giving, healthy praise. More than just a place, I think it is needed. Makoto Fujimura spoke at a conference last week in Chicago on creativity. He was incredibly humble. He told a story of a time he spoke to a group of pastors, and in the room there was a small gathering of artists, also. He asked the pastors if they had ever been to visit the exhibitions of the artists in their churches, and added &#8220;Most of these young artists&#8217; have works for sale...]]></description>
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