100Movements Champions for Liminality/Communitas, Andrew Arnold and Jessie Cruickshank, discuss how the COVID-19 crisis and forced liminality can be a chance to go deep with ourselves, with God, and with one another.
In this webcast we speak with Mark DeYmaz, founder and CEO of Mosaix, about how commitment to mission and innovative financial imagination are required for the church to survive and thrive the current seachange.
By Jessie Cruickshank“The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.” -Leo BuscagliaLiminality is an anthropological term used to describe a threshold experience, or a season in between two…
By Neil Cole“A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what ships were made for.” ―AnonymousA ship sits prominently in one of the busiest harbors of the world. She has been there for five decades, unmoved. The Queen Mary is a hotel, encased in a rock jetty. Tourists who come to Long Beach,…
By Alan HirschWhile danger and crisis necessarily expose a person or a group to the possibility of destruction or failure, they also provide an opportunity for people to find the inner resources to overcome evil and enrich themselves as a result. Relationships develop into comradeships in such situations. Without using the explicit word “liminality,” seminal…
By Alan HirschIn trying to come to grips with what was happening in our own church, as well as in trying to answer the question of how apostolic movements grew so remarkably and against all odds, I have found Victor Turner’s ideas of liminality and communities to be essential keys to naming part of the mystery.[1] It…
By Jessie CruickshankWhat are relationships like in heaven? This is a question I often pondered as I read scriptures during the years I helped build a Christian Wilderness Ministry program in the middle of Wyoming. I wanted the small, temporary communities that the students experience to be reflective of the community of heaven. I wanted…