by Steve Thomason | Jan 7, 2015 | Personal Journal
Yep, it’s hard to believe, but I finished writing the entire dissertation (240 pages). This cold day when all activities were cancelled was a real blessing for me. I’ve been working since 6am (it is now 8:20pm) and I just sent the first draft of the...
by Steve Thomason | Dec 16, 2014 | Personal Journal
I sent off the rough draft of chapter three of my dissertation to my reading team this morning. This chapter offers a thick description of the project. The next goal is to get a rough draft of the fourth and final chapter finished before the end of the year....
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by Steve Thomason | Nov 21, 2014 | Bible, Personal Journal
One possible frame/theme I might explore in my dissertation is the observation that the Upper Room Discourse (John 13-17) demonstrates Trinitarian Praxis. Here is a rough sketch of how I see it working out in the...
by Steve Thomason | Nov 21, 2014 | Personal Journal
Today I typed the final page of audio transcription and loaded the last few emails into NVivo. With these acts I have officially collected all the data for the Deep in the Burbs Research Project. Let us take a moment to reflect. ahhhh. The team met for the first time...
by Steve Thomason | Nov 17, 2014 | Personal Journal
The final meeting of the Deep in the Burbs Research Team ended a few moments ago. I sit here in humbled awe that a group of people would volunteer their time over the span of ten months to meet 11 times, create and carry out action projects in their neighborhoods,...
by Steve Thomason | Nov 13, 2014 | Personal Journal
I try to pay attention to how things cluster in my consciousness. There will be a conversation here, I’ll read something there, someone will send a message from over there, all within a few hours, all about the same thing. When that happens–and it seems to...
