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liminality and the neverlocal
Paul had his thorn in the flesh,
I have this lousy continuously intermittent feels-like-a-sprained-ankle but not quite right ankle.
Anyway, I’ve been thinking how the Church, visible and otherwise,
is made up of people who would not come together otherwise,
were it not for a common faith – not even for a sporting event
or a political rally.
The twenty dollar word for this is liminality.
It’s not an entirely foreign word to most of us;
the term preliminary has the same Latin root
(limen – a threshold).
Liminality has three stages: (Wikipedia quote follows)
With examples from a college graduation ceremony.
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