*  Essential textbooks
+ Highly recommended supplementary textbooks

​​Textbooks:
* A Journey to the Truth: The Case of KwaSizabantu Mission by Mrs. Gerda Potgieter
*  Henry Morton Stanley School of Christian Journalism Manual by Dr. Peter Hammond
+ Telling the Truth: How to Revitalise Christian Journalism by Marvin Olasky
+ The Case for Christ: A Journalist’s Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Christ by Lee Strobel
+ The Struggle for the Soul of Journalism: The Pulpit vs. the Press, 1833 – 1923 (Journalism in Perspective) by Ronald Rogers
+ The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence that Points Towards God by Lee Strobel
+ This Book Changed Everything: The Bible’s Amazing Impact on our World by Vishal Mangalwadi
+ The Case for Miracles: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for the Supernatural by Lee Strobel
+ Media, Journalism and Communication - Reclaiming the Christian Intellectual Tradition by Read Schuchardt

Video links on Vimeo Gallery:
Balanced and Biblical Christian Journalism
Henry Morton Stanley – The Greatest Journalist of All Time – Part 1
Henry Morton Stanley – Through the Dark Continent – Part 2
Media Interviews, Public Speaking and Debating
The Illegal Trial of Christ
William Wilberforce and the War Against Slavery
The Tragic Legacy of Versailles
Was Pearl Harbour an Unprecedented Surprise Attack?
Mitsuo Fuchida – From Pearl Harbour to Calvary
General George Patton – His Life and Legacy
Katyn – Unravelling One of the Many Secrets of the Second World War
False Flags, Active Measures, Disinformation and Subversion Campaigns
How the New World Order is Hijacking Civilisation
How We Can Resist the New World Order
Farms and Freedoms Under Fire in South Africa
Is South Africa Heading Into the Second Phase of the Revolution?
Mandela Day and the Making of a New Religion
The French Revolution
The St. James Massacre – 25 Years Ago
A Biblical Response to Socialist Land Reform in Zimbabwe’s Elections
The Battle for Faith, Family and our Future in Education
Fraud, Failure and Farce – Land Expropriation Hearings
Kofi Anan, the UN, the Rwandan Holocaust and The Oil for Food Scandal
The Gay Mafia Behind the Crisis in Roman Catholicism
How Marxists Subvert Churches and Society
Who Won the War and Who Initiated the Peace in South Africa?
The Causes, Consequences and Catastrophe of the First World War
Understanding t he Present Crisis in South Africa
The National Suicide of the Xhosa
Coping with Conflict and Controversy
Why No Christian Should Support Affirmative Action Racism
Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris Fire and Churches Under Fire
Recommended History Films
The Most Important Books Ever Published

Audio MP3s on Sermon Audio:
Balanced and Biblical Christian Journalism
The Battle for the Mind in the News Media 
Propaganda, Indoctrination, Race, Politics and Genocide
Satan is Deceiving the Nations
How I Came to Realise that We Have Been Lied To
Dealing with Deception in the Media
Facts that Undermine the Lies
Lies We Have All Believed
Lies Enslaved, the Truth Sets Free
Lies We Must Refuse to Accept
Lies We Must Refuse to Believe
Faith is Not Gullibility – Refuting the Lies that Enslave South Africa
The 007 Villains Disconnect with Reality
Racism, Rhetoric and Reality
A Modern Idol – The Truth About Martin Luther King Jr.
The Failure of Atheism and the Triumph of Faith in Russia
Mandela Day and the Making of a New Religion
The Mandela Myth and the Idolatry Industry

Recommended Films:
  • The Case for Christ (2017 Dramatic film on an Atheist journalist who seeks to disprove his wife’s Christian Faith). The Case for Christ -Documentary
  • Teacher’s Pet (1958) dramatizing the conflict between a journalist editor and a journalism instructor.
  • Citizen Kane (1941 Austin Wells classic).
  • Absence of Malice (1981 Paul Newman film which examines journalistic ethics, balancing the public right to know with damaging personal information being disclosed).
  • Network (1976 classic).
  • Expelled – No Intelligence Allowed (a 2008 Ben Stein investigation into the conspiracy in academia to exclude people who believe in Intelligent Design).
  • What If Jesus Had Never Been Born? (Dr. James Kennedy’s classic documentary expose).
  • Africa Addio (1966 unflinching look at the savage lawlessness that accompanied decolonialisation in Africa, including the Mau Mau of Kenya and the Simba in the Congo. Not for the sensitive viewer. This film documents the massacres and brutality of revolutionaries in Africa).
  • Agenda 2 (an outstanding example of investigative journalism to discover the agenda behind so much of the destructive policies that ruined the 20th century).

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Assignments:​​
  1. Provide a 2,000 word essay on what constitutes bold, balanced and Biblical journalism.
  2. Provide five 300 word essays on what you learned from five of the video or audio presentations.
  3. Write a 2,000 word essay on Bias, Prejudice and Disinformation in the media today.
  4. Write an article for a community newspaper with 2 or 3 photographs on any aspect that is relevant to your community. (You will receive bonus marks if you can also attach a photocopy of the article published in your local community newspaper.)
  5. Write at least 3 letters to the Editor on various issues of concern. (Bonus marks will be awarded for those that include copies of these letters having been published in a local community newspaper or magazine.)
  6. Start a Facebook page, Website or Blog to deal with a neglected, important and relevant subject. Provide links.
  7. Phone in to a radio phone-in programme and contribute to the discussion, using key Biblical and journalistic principles. Write a report on what you learned from this experience.
  8. Interview three different people who are either eyewitnesses of an important event, or individuals who have achieved in their field. Write up articles on the basis of these interviews. (Bonus marks will be awarded to those who have these interviews published in a local community newspaper or magazine.)
  9. Provide a list of subjects you want to research, or people you would like to interview, for future journalism projects.
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