Comments on: The forecast: a strong likelihood of liminality http://olympicchurch.org/newsletter/the-forecast-a-strong-likelihood-of-liminality/ Church of the Brethren Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:45:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Kendra Sousley Mellinger http://olympicchurch.org/newsletter/the-forecast-a-strong-likelihood-of-liminality/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Kendra Sousley Mellinger Wed, 27 May 2009 06:42:10 +0000 http://olympicchurch.org/?p=825#comment-47 Ken, I really enjoyed reading both your post and David Horsey's. I had not heard about the closing of the COB's Washington office. I agree with you that it's quite unbelievable and sad, and seems to threaten the very fabric of our meaning as a community. Yes, liminality. We are living at what seems to be an historical (evolutionary?) height of it for sure, and I am glad to be with you too, brother. I appreciate Horsey's perspective on the possibility that what the statistics may show is that perhaps we are simply living more honestly, and this does not necessarily mean less faithfully. I haven't heard this idea articulated elsewhere, and it spoke both to my heart and my circumstance. Your presence among your church folk is courageous, insightful, and (I happen to know) well-grounded in a hearty soil of generations of faith. May we all become whom we are yet to be with a willingness to let go, knowing that all we have built and nurtured so dearly will not crumble, but morph with us into a beautiful creature yet unseen and perhaps unimagined, if desperately longed for. Many blessings to you, gratitude, love, and peace. I am so glad I came across your writing tonight. Ken, I really enjoyed reading both your post and David Horsey’s. I had not heard about the closing of the COB’s Washington office. I agree with you that it’s quite unbelievable and sad, and seems to threaten the very fabric of our meaning as a community.

Yes, liminality. We are living at what seems to be an historical (evolutionary?) height of it for sure, and I am glad to be with you too, brother.

I appreciate Horsey’s perspective on the possibility that what the statistics may show is that perhaps we are simply living more honestly, and this does not necessarily mean less faithfully. I haven’t heard this idea articulated elsewhere, and it spoke both to my heart and my circumstance.

Your presence among your church folk is courageous, insightful, and (I happen to know) well-grounded in a hearty soil of generations of faith. May we all become whom we are yet to be with a willingness to let go, knowing that all we have built and nurtured so dearly will not crumble, but morph with us into a beautiful creature yet unseen and perhaps unimagined, if desperately longed for.

Many blessings to you, gratitude, love, and peace. I am so glad I came across your writing tonight.

]]> By: Vince Delmonte http://olympicchurch.org/newsletter/the-forecast-a-strong-likelihood-of-liminality/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Vince Delmonte Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:15:01 +0000 http://olympicchurch.org/?p=825#comment-12 My fellow on Orkut shared this link and I'm not disappointed that I came to your blog. My fellow on Orkut shared this link and I’m not disappointed that I came to your blog.

]]> By: Ken Miller Rieman http://olympicchurch.org/newsletter/the-forecast-a-strong-likelihood-of-liminality/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Ken Miller Rieman Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:59:55 +0000 http://olympicchurch.org/?p=825#comment-11 David Horsey jumped into this conversation on his own blog, and though I appreciate his generous remarks, I think the rest of his observations are worth a read. http://blog.seattlepi.com/davidhorsey/archives/166262.asp David Horsey jumped into this conversation on his own blog, and though I appreciate his generous remarks, I think the rest of his observations are worth a read.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/davidhorsey/archives/166262.asp

]]> By: Frosty Wilkinson http://olympicchurch.org/newsletter/the-forecast-a-strong-likelihood-of-liminality/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Frosty Wilkinson Sun, 12 Apr 2009 04:11:53 +0000 http://olympicchurch.org/?p=825#comment-10 I never heard of Liminality before and now, at least I can spell it. Glad you are here to be with us on the threshold of change. I never heard of Liminality before and now, at least I can spell it. Glad you are here to be with us on the threshold of change.

]]> By: Ken Miller Rieman http://olympicchurch.org/newsletter/the-forecast-a-strong-likelihood-of-liminality/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Ken Miller Rieman Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:17:42 +0000 http://olympicchurch.org/?p=825#comment-9 I guess, in this and most cases, I write about the intersections between my life, the life of my congregation, and the world around us. I wasn't aware liminality was web-trendy. It was sure a trendy concept back in Seminary, 15 years ago. A friend who teaches at another seminary just read my post and admitted he was a heavy user of the concept. Maybe it's because we're <strong>actually</strong> crossing a threshold. What do you think? What are you paying attention to? What is your name? I guess, in this and most cases, I write about the intersections between my life, the life of my congregation, and the world around us. I wasn’t aware liminality was web-trendy. It was sure a trendy concept back in Seminary, 15 years ago. A friend who teaches at another seminary just read my post and admitted he was a heavy user of the concept.

Maybe it’s because we’re actually crossing a threshold. What do you think? What are you paying attention to? What is your name?

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