by Steve Thomason | Sep 22, 2014 | Personal Journal, Personal Updates
Today I stop to take a breath. I have been running hard and fast since the day I returned from Sabbatical. There is an intense amount of work to do in late August and early September when leading Youth Ministry, Adult Ministry, preaching, and supervising...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 18, 2014 | Personal Journal
I reached a way-point on my research project today. I finished transcribing the most recent team session audio file (it was 46 pages long). All of the emails, online comments, and transcripts are up-to-date and placed in NVivo. I will not have to transcribe audio...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 28, 2014 | Personal Journal, Spiritual Formation
This is how the internet works…for some of us, anyway. I was on Facebook and saw two of my academic colleagues–Ken Reynhout and Josh de Keijzer–shared a post by Peter Enns that was written by Jeannine Brown. (check out the animation I did for...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 15, 2014 | Personal Journal
Many times people say things like, “We need to get back to the basics,” or, “I wish we could go back to the good old days.” or, “we need to get back to Jesus, or the early church.” I understand the sentiment, but, I wonder. Can you...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 3, 2014 | Personal Journal, Religious Education, Spiritual Formation, The Missional Church, The Trinity
I was sorting through some old notes this morning and I came across my visual notes from the CML Conference on the Missional Church and Digital Media. The presentations by Mary Hess and Elizabeth Drescher align so well with Deana Thompson And John Roberto’s...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 22, 2014 | Personal Journal, Spiritual Formation
Urban T. Holmes names the value of pursuing the study of Christian Spirituality as it has been experienced throughout history. “The answer should: broaden the limitations of our own horizons; free us to seek a pattern of discipline in the spiritual life that is...