by Steve Thomason | Apr 30, 2020 | Cognitive Development and the Evolving Self, Devos, Spiritual Formation
We live in an acute moment of radical change. Whatever we considered “normal” is gone. We don’t know what’s coming. This is called liminal space.
This video offers A Cartoonist’s Guide to embracing liminal space. What is it? How do we live into it? Where is the good news in it?
by Steve Thomason | Apr 4, 2016 | Cognitive Development and the Evolving Self, postfoundational
I had the privilege to present a paper at the American Academy of Religion Upper Midwest Regional Conference on Saturday. It asks the question: How can the church leader attend to the generational gaps found in suburban congregations, specifically as it relates to...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 11, 2014 | Adult Learning, Building Community, Cognitive Development and the Evolving Self, postfoundational, Religious Education, Spiritual Formation, Spirituality in Adult Learning, The Trinity, Theories of Adult Learning
Deep in the Burbs is a story of people in formation. The task of this project—to ask how an increased awareness and understanding of the social Trinity might impact the ideation and praxis of spiritual formation in suburban ELCA congregations—implies that something...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 21, 2014 | Books - Epistemology/Hermeneutics, Books - Spirituality, Cognitive Development and the Evolving Self
Van Huyssteen, J. Wentzel and Erik P. Wiebe. In Search of Self: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Personhood. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans Pub., 2011. The following two paragraphs provide a good flavor for this collection of essays that explore the human self in an...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 17, 2014 | Cognitive Development and the Evolving Self, How Do We Think?, Personal Journal, The Trinity
I believe the Holy Spirit moves through Twitter. I know that sounds weird, but the story I am about to tell is one that has happened often to me. Yesterday I started writing an essay about dualisms and how we can navigate between seemingly polarized opposites....
by Steve Thomason | May 1, 2014 | Books - Spirituality, Cognitive Development and the Evolving Self, Spiritual Formation
Greyson, Bruce. “Near-Death Experiences and Spirituality.” Zygon 41, no. 2 (2006): 393-414. NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES AND SPIRITUALITY by Greyson – flattened my annotated copy Annotation Summary for: NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES AND SPIRITUALITY by Greyson ...