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...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 11, 2014 | Adult Learning, Building Community, Cognitive Development and the Evolving Self, postfoundational, Religious Education, Spiritual Formation, Spirituality in Adult Learning, The Trinity, Theories of Adult Learning
Deep in the Burbs is a story of people in formation. The task of this project—to ask how an increased awareness and understanding of the social Trinity might impact the ideation and praxis of spiritual formation in suburban ELCA congregations—implies that something...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 8, 2014 | Spiritual Formation
I’m beginning to work on a project that is tentatively called “The Journey: Finding Your Way for a Life in God” The following three images are the three metaphors from which I will draw throughout the course. It will be an eight-session course,...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 8, 2014 | Spiritual Formation
I’m beginning to work on a project that is tentatively called “The Journey: Finding Your Way for a Life in God” The following three images are the three metaphors from which I will draw throughout the course. It will be an eight-session course,...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 4, 2014 | How Do We Think?, postfoundational, The Trinity
The Deep in the Burbs Research project is a postmodern story about navigating the treacherous waters between the Scylla of absolutism/positivism/foundationalism and the Charybdis of relativism/nihilism/deconstructivism. ((Scylla and Charybdis refers to the hazards...
