by Steve Thomason | Apr 14, 2021 | Bible, Books - Missional Church, Books - Suburban Studies, Suburban Studies
A reflection on the violence in our streets, racial injustice, and the imprecatory Ps
by Steve Thomason | Nov 4, 2019 | Spiritual Formation, Suburban Studies
The Kairos Blanket Exercise is a powerful, interactive, embodied educational experience that takes the participants through a 500-year story of what happened to the indigenous people of Turtle Island (North American Continent) after the European settlers arrived. I...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 7, 2018 | Spiritual Formation, Suburban Studies
I’ve been wrestling with the first sermon in our new series A Deep Life all day. My problem is that I have SO MUCH to say that I’m afraid a) I will overwhelm people, and b) it will go too long. I am so excited about this series, because it hits the core of...
by Steve Thomason | Nov 30, 2017 | Devos, postfoundational, Suburban Studies, The Missional Church
Two terms have played an important role for me in discussing the church. The first term was important for me during the season in which we experimented with house churches. It was during that time that I realized I was swimming in the Emerging Church conversation. The...
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...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 3, 2014 | Suburban Studies
The Deep in the Burbs Research Project is a story of a particular place in Midwest suburbia. It was necessary to pursue this research in a specific location, through participatory action research within three neighboring congregations, because it is my assumption that...