We are responsible for how we communicate, for what we communicate, and for how our communication affects others.
In this discerning introduction to communication theory, Quentin Schultze guides readers through an interesting, creative, and spiritual study of communication. Rooted in a Christian worldview, Communicating for Life explores the implications of individual human communication and the influence of communication on community.

Several aspects of the discipline of communication are examined, including the flawed nature of human communication, contrasting views of communication, and the role of media in contemporary society.

Communicating for Life is the first book to be released under the imprint RenewedMinds, a new publishing partnership between The Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) and Baker Academic that will cover a variety of disciplines.

This book answers the question, ‘What does it mean to think like a Christian about human communication?’ In striving to answer that question, the author touches on topics seldom treated in the communication literature: the role of grace in human relationships, the nature of wisdom, the power of forgiving, the knowledge of good and evil, the creative force of peacemaking, and the transforming reality of God’s love. Although specifically written for undergraduates, this book should be read by everyone concerned with the interrelationships among communications, community, and communion. . . . The bookstores are full of treatises about communication written from Marxist, feminist, positivist, and cultural studies perspectives. Now there is a book written from an explicitly Christian perspective and one thing is clear: never again can religious beliefs and values be relegated to the intellectual sidelines. To study human communication is to be immersed in questions of the most profound religious significance.–Martin J. Medhurst, Texas A&M University

Easily the best presentation I know of a Christian perspective on communication and the media. It raises questions where most of us just take things for granted, and issues challenges where most of us just go along. . . . Though deeply informed in both the Christian tradition and contemporary discussions on the media, it nonetheless wears its learning with extraordinary grace and vividness of rhetoric.–Nicholas Wolterstorff, Yale Divinity School