by Steve Thomason | Nov 6, 2014 | Books - Spirituality, Personal Journal
I was reading God, Sexuality, and the Self by Sarah Coakley today. Chapter Four, “The Charismatic Constituency: Embarrassment or Riches?” reports her ethnographic research of two Charismatic congregations in a University town in England. The chapter itself...
by Steve Thomason | Oct 7, 2014 | Personal Journal
It’s crunch week for Bible Mania. This Saturday I will present a six-hour workshop/experience called Bible Mania where I will lead a group of people through the big story of the Bible from beginning to end. It is like a post-Evangelical, missional, neo-Lutheran...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 23, 2014 | Books - Spirituality, Books - Trinity, postfoundational
Grenz, Stanley J. The Social God and the Relational Self: A Trinitarian Theology of the Imago Dei. 1st ed. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001. Author – Stanley Grenz Grenz traces the historical backdrop of the concept of self in the West in order...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 10, 2014 | sermons2014
listen to the audio CLICK TO LISTEN This has been one of the wettest years on record here in Minnesota. Do you remember how much it rained at the end of May? On one particular Saturday night it poured and poured and my sump pump would not stop pumping water, until it...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 23, 2014 | The Trinity
Deep in the Burbs is a story of the Triune God. The research question asks “How might an increased awareness of the social Trinity impact the ideation and praxis of spiritual formation in suburban ELCA congregations?” It might be easy to think of this as if the social...
