Sara Hughes-Zabawa joins me for the final episode of the Fowler’s Stages of Faith series. In this episode we discuss the failings of Fowler’s stages. We also talk about how we can notice or …
Sara Hughes-Zabawa and I discuss a spirituality that pays attention to both the church’s tendency to spiritually wound and spiritually enlivening. We discuss Fowler’s Stage Five in the context of spiritual practice and suggest those …
Sara Hughes-Zabawa returns to discuss one of the most emotionally and spiritually challenging stages in Fowler’s Stages of Faith; the development of an Individuative-Reflective Faith. In high demand or fundamentalist faith traditions Stage Four is poorly understood and often …
Sara Hughes-Zabawa rejoins me to discuss Fowler’s Stages of Faith: The Synthetic-Conventional Stage. Stage Three is usually entered into during adolescence. It’s that stage in which we imagine that our views represent an accurate and …
Sara Hughes-Zabawa returns to discuss Fowler’s Stage Two: The Mythic Literal stage. We discuss the power of story and mythology as important tools of meaning meaning-making. Rather than see them as inducements into lives of …
In thinking about Fowler’s stages model, adults don’t tend to discuss the childhood phases. Yet, we all have parts of each stage present in us, whether some have been mostly passed through, and others are …
Dr Alan Jamieson is the senior pastor at the South West Baptist Church in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is an author of multiple books on faith development. He took an interest in why people leave …
