Sketches of Disney’s Paperman
The short film before Wreck-It Ralph blew my mind. It’s called Paperman. They have brilliantly reclaimed 2D art with 3D animation. I’m in love. I decided to do some sketches of the characters…on real...
What is the Word of God?
This is a PowerPoint with Voice-over that offers a simple historical overview of how the Hebrew and Christian scriptures were formed. It then poses the question: “What is the Word of God?” and offers three general schools of thought around the...Thketch | The Grammar of Me: The MeWe Principle
Paper | A Missiology for the ELCA Suburban Congregation by Steve Thomason
This is the paper I wrote for CL8965 Missiology and the Missional Church with Craig Van Gelder in the Spring of 2012. Read on academia.edu A Missiology for the ELCA Congregation in the United States Suburban Context by Steve Thomason A Term Paper presented to...
Book | Exploring Spirituality and Culture in Adult and Higher Education by Elizabeth Tisdell
Exploring Spirituality and Culture in Adult and Higher Education by Elizabeth Tisdell My Notes… Assumptions about Spirituality: spirituality and religion are not the same, but for many people they are interrelated spirituality is an awareness and honoring of...The Gospel and the God-Forsaken: The Challenge of the Missional Church in Suburbia by Todd Hiestand
Todd’s paper was presented to the Evangelical Theological Society in March of 2007. Todd blogs about being a pastor and trying to be missional in suburbia. He has a personal blog and a collaborative blog.Ruined and Reconciled: A Sermon on Isaiah 6:1-8
Narrative Lectionary Text: Isaiah 6:1-8 [pretend to shoot a gun] “bang!” “Holy Blank, Batman!” Get it? I shot a blank. That’s funny. Do you remember who used to say “Holy ______” all the time? Robin. Right. As in Batman and Robin. The caped crusader’s sidekick was...
The Grammar of Me – A Thketch of the MeWe Principle
The MeWe Principle is a concept I’m working on in my onging thoughts about the Trinity. This Thketch looks at the difference between “I” and “Me” by first looking at their use in English grammar. I then exlplore how God is not an...Read moreThe sin, the error, is not our hunger for knowledge, –and the way back to Paradise is not via intentional ignorance (despite some latter-day Christian claims). Adam and Eve were driven from the Garden because of the kind of knowledge they reached for–a knowledge that distrusted and excluded God. Their drive to know arose not from love but from curiosity and control, from the desire to possess powers belonging to God alone. They failed to honor the fact that God knew them first, knew them in their limits as well as their potentials. In their refusal to know as they were known, they reached for a kind of knowledge that always leads to death. (To Know as We Are Known, p. 25)
