I think words are a conduit. I think k it’s the reason in Genesis, the earth is created by the power of words. All that to say, I believe you feel connected because we absolutely *are* connected 🖤🖤🖤
"...I neither look for the worst nor the best in people, but instead I search for the human and the holy." Dang, Marcie! There is so much grace in this...thank you!
Dear Marcie, there is a socioligy book "American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving" that I read trepidaciously as a college freshman at the same time as I was personally entering religion for myself as a congregant. The book put me on edge because seeming audaciously it was about protestantism rather than experiencing it. But l knew I needed both for my own reasons then and now. The thesis was that the beliefs build a strong sense of belonging for members inside the religion, to allow them to feel enough safety to comfort and enough danger to stimulate growth by the choice to keep conservative and seemingly orthodox beleifs engaged with the world outside the religion. Its shocking to see what the result of this is. I am mentioning it here in affirmation of your model of concerned yet hopeful detachment from engaging. Yet I cannot help but beleive there is a a logical solution somewhere to the system of in-grouping and out-grouping in order to assure one's own precarious belonging. Your work is such an important tool in mapping what the hell is going on here. Peace and respect. Now i have to finsh reading your article! In a flash i remembered and had to share, thank you for allowing me space here
Great message.
Needed this ... great perspective, reminder and truth ...
Lots of TRUTH with my morning coffee.
😉☕️
I’m ready to start the next chapter right along beside you, Marcie.
I finished reading “Everybody Come Alive” last week.
How can I feel so connected to someone I’ve never met….
I read it yet again this week. So very deep and spiritual, absorbing your very soul.
All I know is, it would be a sin for me not to personally thank you for writing this book.
Your words haunt me, but at the same time, inspire me to do better, see better, live better.
Why do I feel so connected? Because you write the truth, open up your wounds and expose our humanity in all the ways God has made us.
So beautifully written. What a true treasure!
‘I am because we are’
Thank you Marcie
You read my book!!!😭😭😭 thank you so much.
I think words are a conduit. I think k it’s the reason in Genesis, the earth is created by the power of words. All that to say, I believe you feel connected because we absolutely *are* connected 🖤🖤🖤
I ordered it yesterday!
Thank you so very much 🙏🏾
"...I neither look for the worst nor the best in people, but instead I search for the human and the holy." Dang, Marcie! There is so much grace in this...thank you!
Thank you 🖤
Dear Marcie, there is a socioligy book "American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving" that I read trepidaciously as a college freshman at the same time as I was personally entering religion for myself as a congregant. The book put me on edge because seeming audaciously it was about protestantism rather than experiencing it. But l knew I needed both for my own reasons then and now. The thesis was that the beliefs build a strong sense of belonging for members inside the religion, to allow them to feel enough safety to comfort and enough danger to stimulate growth by the choice to keep conservative and seemingly orthodox beleifs engaged with the world outside the religion. Its shocking to see what the result of this is. I am mentioning it here in affirmation of your model of concerned yet hopeful detachment from engaging. Yet I cannot help but beleive there is a a logical solution somewhere to the system of in-grouping and out-grouping in order to assure one's own precarious belonging. Your work is such an important tool in mapping what the hell is going on here. Peace and respect. Now i have to finsh reading your article! In a flash i remembered and had to share, thank you for allowing me space here
I’m gonna look up that book!