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Posted by Marcia on August 19, 2012 · 4 Comments

Living Liminality: Of Thresholds and Dwelling Places

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A version of this post is the first of my contributions to the Feminism and Religion blog on which I will be a quarterly contributor.  Sometimes I think it happened gradually.  Other times it feels like sudden change.  Either way I find myself in an in-between space that is my life. With apologies to Victor Turner and his cultural anthropological appropriation of liminality as a threshold space, I have come to view my liminal living as a more permanent dwelling place these days.  Turner’s category of liminality locates subjects in the betwixt and between as they move from one manifestation of… Read the full post

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Posted by Marcia on March 12, 2011 · 2 Comments

Waiting

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Wait for the Lord, whose day is near.  Wait for the Lord, be strong take heart.       –from the music of the Taize community  Two stretches of the year Christians are called on to practice waiting—we wait for the Incarnation in our Advent stretch, and we wait for the Resurrection in our Lenten stretch.  Through the ages the institutional church has suggested lots of ways for us to signal and really feel this waiting.  Believers may be invited to worship more, pray more, give something up, have a daily scriptural reading and prayer practice, eat differently, or add and subtract elements… Read the full post

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Posted by Marcia on September 20, 2010 · 1 Comment

Providential Symmetry

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Jesus said,  ”Do not let your hearts be troubled.  Believe in God, believe also in me.  In God’s house there are many dwelling places…where I am there you will be also.” –from John 14:1-3 Providential symmetry.  That’s what I call moments when life is integrated with an almost eerie (or ethereal) re-membering of space/place/passage of time. I had one of these brushes with the Divine geometry that links lifetimes and the goad toward purpose/insight/understanding of who we are as I was driving home from the opening football game of UNC’s 2010 season. This game had been a gut-wrenching experience from start… Read the full post

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