by Steve Thomason | Mar 24, 2014 | Books - Missional Church, Books - Spirituality, Spiritual Formation, The Missional Church
Bass, Diana Butler. Christianity after Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening. 1st ed. New York: HarperOne, 2012. I heard Diana Butler Bass speak at the Festival of Homiletics a couple years ago, and she was fantastic. These are the...
by Steve Thomason | Jan 28, 2014 | Spiritual Formation, The Missional Church, The Trinity
Mike Breen wrote an article at The Verge Network titled Why the Missional Movement Will Fail. His answer boiled down to one word: discipleship. I couldn’t agree with him more. However, as I read his follow up article–Why the Missional Movement Will Fail...
by Steve Thomason | Dec 2, 2013 | postfoundational, Suburban Studies, The Missional Church, The Trinity
In this post I will connect the term The Kingdom of Heaven with Kathryn Tanner’s ideas in Theories of Culture. ((Tanner, Kathryn. Theories of Culture: A New Agenda for Theology Guides to Theological Inquiry. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1997.)) I will then...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 10, 2013 | Books - Missional Church, The Missional Church
Keifert, Patrick R. Testing the Spirits: How Theology Informs the Study of Congregations. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans Pub., 2009. The Authors Ronald W. Duty Pat Taylor Ellison David Fredrickson Donald Juel Patrick Keifert Lois Malcolm Gary Simpson Three Shifts...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 30, 2013 | Lecture Notes, Theology
These are my class notes from the PhD seminar Congregational Leadership at Luther Seminary, taught by Dr. Craig Van Gelder in the Fall of 2011.
