by Steve Thomason | Mar 5, 2014 | Personal Journal, The Trinity
The Deep in the Burbs Research Project is off to a good start. The team has met twice and is gelling nicely. We’ve been wrestling with the nature and purpose of Spiritual Formation. This week we turn our attention to the Trinity. What is it? Does it matter? How...
by Steve Thomason | Mar 4, 2014 | Sermons, Spiritual Formation
This is going to be a big week. Last night we held our second of six Deep in the Burbs Research Team meetings. Those are going very well. I’m exicited to see where this research leads. Tomorrow night I am scheduled to preach for our Ash Wednesday service. Our...
by Steve Thomason | Mar 1, 2014 | Art
Ethan and I had one of those right-place-at-the-right time moments today. We are on the St. Olaf campus for Ethan’s voice scholarship auditions (go Bass 2’s!). We’re walking around, exploring the campus, when we run into Mitch Kampf, a junior at St....
by Steve Thomason | Feb 25, 2014 | Personal Updates
I had a first this week. I had the funeral for a man who had been a trucker for 50 years. Both of his sons are also truckers. The boys honored their Dad by strapping his casket to a flat bed trailer. Yep, we were cruising down 35W on our way to Ft. Snelling for his...
by Steve Thomason | Feb 22, 2014 | Books - Adult Learning, Cognitive Development and the Evolving Self, Personal Journal, The Trinity, Theories of Adult Learning
Kegan, Robert. The Evolving Self: Problem and Process in Human Development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982. The Author – Robert Kegan My Thoughts I read the Prologue to this book today. I have already read In Over Our Heads and Immunity to Change,...