by Steve Thomason | Apr 18, 2015 | Lecture Notes
I attended the UMW-AAR (Upper Mid-West American Academy of Religion) Regional Conference this weekend. This was my first time to attend. It was a good experience with an excellent pre-conference workshop and plenary sessions with Willie Jennings. This is one page of...
by Steve Thomason | Apr 17, 2015 | Devos
Friday, April 17. Acts 9:1-19. You’ve probably seen this picture before. What do you see when you look at it? Do you see a young woman or an old woman? Psychologists have been using this picture since the 1930s to describe how the viewer’s perspective...
by Steve Thomason | Apr 16, 2015 | sermons2015
listen to sermon audio CLICK HERE. Narrative Lectionary Text. Easter 2. Matthew 28:16-20. Here’s my big question for today. Are you a missionary? What do you think of when you hear the word “missionary?” When I was growing up, whenever I imagined a missionary in my...
by Steve Thomason | Apr 16, 2015 | Dissertation
Deep in the Burbs is my PhD Dissertation. View the digital version of it here. This is a participatory action research project that asks: How might an increased awareness and understanding of the social Trinity impact the ideation and praxis of spiritual formation in...
by Steve Thomason | Apr 16, 2015 | Devos
Thursday, April 16. Acts 8:26-40. (This is a repost from the Acts study) Throughout history the term “Christianity” came to be identified as a European institution. In the Middle Ages this was so true that the Geographical region of Western Europe was called...