A Word from Laura: Liminal
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A Word from Laura: Liminal

“Liminal,” from the Latin limen, meaning door threshold, refers to transitional moments or spaces. You’ve left one place but you’re not yet in the next. Anthropologists describe liminality as the ambiguity and disorientation that happens in rites of passage, when a person is finished with one stage, separated from their old habits and ways, but not quite landed in the next.  Liminal times in our lives are both exciting and anxious, creative and exhausting.  (Think middle school.)

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A Word from Laura: Juneteenth
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A Word from Laura: Juneteenth

"…then, thenceforward, and forever free…”

They were the first words I heard waking up on this Juneteenth, Lincoln’s words ringing in my ears. Words it took the enslaved community in Galveston, Texas more than two years to hear. Words Lincoln should never have had to say in the first place.

155 years later, we’re still trying to get that “thenceforward, and forever” part right.

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Listening Session on Racial Justice: June 14 at 5pm
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Listening Session on Racial Justice: June 14 at 5pm

Pastor Laura, Session, and the Anti-Racism group’s leadership team invite members of the Western community to a listening session Sunday, June 14 at 5 pm.

We will reflect on the recent murder of George Floyd by police and the ongoing protests for racial justice that arose in response. We will also remember Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and the many other unarmed Black people whose murders are part of our country’s 400-year history of exploitation of Black people and the systems of racial oppression constructed and maintained by White people at the expense of people of color.

This gathering is an opportunity to listen to one another, say what is in our hearts, and invite the Spirit to be at work in our shared grief, anger and frustration. 

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