by Steve Thomason | Jun 23, 2014 | Books - Missional Church, How Do We Think?, The Missional Church
Newbigin, Lesslie. Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1986. Author – Lesslie Newbigin My Reflection (this reflection was originally written in January, 2012 for the course Vocation of the...
by Steve Thomason | Jun 12, 2014 | Personal Journal, The Trinity
I became distracted this morning while reading Augustine’s De Trinitate. He was discussing the idea that we can’t love something until we know it ((Book X, p. 288)). When we encounter a new thing—his example was a word that we had never heard—it must,...
by Steve Thomason | Jun 9, 2014 | Bible, Personal Journal, The Trinity
Spirit of pentecost sermon slides Acts 2:1-21 from Steve Thomason When you’re a hammer, everything is a nail. I’ve heard that expression used to describe how teachers can manipulate any text to fit their own theological agenda. I have to admit that the...
by Steve Thomason | Jun 4, 2014 | Books - Trinity, Spiritual Formation, The Trinity
Mark McIntosh’s work is important to my research. He has done an incredible job of connecting Trinitarian theology to spirituality. This is obviously important to my research question in which I ask how an increased awareness of social Trinity might impact...
by Steve Thomason | Jun 2, 2014 | ministry, Spiritual Formation, Theology
This essay is a personal reflection on the decision made by the Vision Board on May 13 to permit same-sex marriages to be held at Grace and the new reality that we live in as a congregation in the wake of that decision. I must confess, up front, that I am still in...
by Steve Thomason | May 31, 2014 | Personal Journal, Spiritual Formation, Suburban Studies
I decided to read The Blackwell Companion to Christian Spirituality. It has occured to me that I have become bogged down in the epistemological concerns section of the dissertation and have not attended well to the actual core of my research, which is the topic of...
