by Steve Thomason | Mar 15, 2013 | Lecture Notes, News
These are my class notes from this past Wednesday. Dr. Keifert explained why he used the phrase “listen your partner into free speech.” He says that free speech is not possible without deep listening.
by Steve Thomason | Mar 12, 2013 | Personal Journal, The Trinity
I am an emerging scholar. In other words, I still don’t know exactly what I’m doing and I get really happy when something works and seems scholarly. Something like that happened to me last night. I am working on my dissertation proposal right now. The...
by Steve Thomason | Mar 7, 2013 | Adult Learning, The Trinity
I’ve done a little more digging into George H. Mead. His work definitely connects with my MeWe principle. Two websites here and here have summarized his work. I haven’t yet delved into his work directly, although I have located it. Mead, George Herbert,...
by Steve Thomason | Mar 2, 2013 | Lecture Notes, News
Here are my notes from class on February 27, 2013. Dr. Kiefert spent a good amount of time talking about how North American church leaders are “mesmerized by numbers” and are operating within the wrong narrative to interpret them. Rather than analyzing...
by Steve Thomason | Feb 16, 2013 | Theology
Here is a thought that popped into my mind yesterday regarding justice. This is an admitedly simplistic and flawed piece of logic, but thought provoking none-the-less. if the (simplistic) definition of justice is “to give what is deserved” then the action...
by Steve Thomason | Feb 9, 2013 | Animation, Thketches
The vine is the central image of the Gospel. It demonstrates the perichoretic power of the Gospel. That is the power of indwelling the other as demonstrated in the...