<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-21/magazine/spring-2022/master-rhetoric-relationships.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>A Master of Rhetoric &amp; Relationships</title><excerpt>Students who’ve studied rhetoric with Greg Spencer, professor of communication studies, likely recall his definition of it: “loving appropriately through speech.” His Christian faith inspires this union of love and rhetorical theory. “We tend to think of rhetoric as manipulative or bombastic speech,” Greg says. “But it really refers to the art of discourse and choosing from every material available to create communication that’s a work of art.”</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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