by Steve Thomason | Oct 15, 2016 | Adult Learning, Books - Adult Learning
Kieran Scott’s article “Alternating Currents: Sacramental and Prophetic Imagining and Church Education” in Religious Education, offers a hopeful framework for the local church to educate people in the emerging post-modern context. He argues that we...
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by Steve Thomason | Aug 29, 2016 | Animation, Thketches
https://youtu.be/uXRpBknhljg?rel=0 Ideas often unfold for me while I’m walking. Last Thursday morning this video unfolded in my mind. It has three origins: The final sermon in the series on Job is coming up over Labor Day weekend. The wisdom of Job leads us to...
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by Steve Thomason | Aug 25, 2016 | Devos, postfoundational
Richard Rohr’s meditations on paradox have been especially helpful for me this week. My Facebook friends know that I’ve been sharing them all week (see below). They have spoken to me for many reasons. One reason is related to the current sermon series on...
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by Steve Thomason | May 22, 2016 | Personal Journal, The Trinity
Today is Trinity Sunday. It is also the day of my commencement upon which I will be given the title The Reverend Doctor Steven Paul Thomason, Ph.D. Weird. It is appropriate that this ceremony take place on Trinity Sunday, since the Trinity is at the heart of my...
by Steve Thomason | Apr 4, 2016 | Cognitive Development and the Evolving Self, postfoundational, Suburban Studies
This paper asks the question: How can the church leader attend to the generational gaps found in suburban congregations, specifically as it relates to spiritual formation in the congregation? I use Robert Kegan’s theory of the Five Orders of Consciousness as a...
