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The Significance of Liminality, with Phil Wyman

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The book Crossing Thresholds explores liminality, the crossing of thresholds, and says that "liminal reality can offer people of faith and especially those in leadership positions a hermeneutical key and a pastoral method." But what is this liminal reality, how can it be both dangerous and a place for positive transformation, how does it relate  to the bounded set of church structures, and how can liminality transform the American church? Phil Wyman helps us explore these questions. Phil is former pastor of The Gathering in Salem, and he has years of experience in liminality with Witches, Pagans, festival-goers and others. Read more about Phil here. Support his Wales adventure through Patreon, and sign up for email updates at pkwyman@gmail.com. Take a look at Crossing Thresholds: A Practical Theology of Liminality by Timothy Carson, Rosy Fairhurst, Nigel Rooms, and Lisa R. Withrow.

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11/23/2021

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77 minutes

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Multifaith Matters

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Episode Description

The book Crossing Thresholds explores liminality, the crossing of thresholds, and says that "liminal reality can offer people of faith and especially those in leadership positions a hermeneutical key and a pastoral method." But what is this liminal reality, how can it be both dangerous and a place for positive transformation, how does it relate  to the bounded set of church structures, and how can liminality transform the American church? Phil Wyman helps us explore these questions. Phil is former pastor of The Gathering in Salem, and he has years of experience in liminality with Witches, Pagans, festival-goers and others.

Read more about Phil here.

Support his Wales adventure through Patreon, and sign up for email updates at pkwyman@gmail.com.

Take a look at Crossing Thresholds: A Practical Theology of Liminality by Timothy Carson, Rosy Fairhurst, Nigel Rooms, and Lisa R. Withrow.

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