PodcastWhen life takes a turn – when you’re diagnosed with a chronic illness, when things spiral out of our control – we’re forced into some uncomfortable places. Liminal places.
The word ‘liminal’ comes from the Latin word meaning ‘threshold’ or ‘doorstep’. When you step over a doorway, you cross the dividing line between the inside and outside of a house. A liminal space, then, is a boundary marker between the end of something, and the beginning of something else.
The experience of suffering is one such liminal state in life. It forces us to shed ideas about ourselves that no longer fit our changed circumstances. In this episode of Life & Faith, we bring you the stories of two people who’ve found themselves living lives they weren’t expecting. We explore how they’ve made sense of what has happened to them, and who they are becoming in the process.
Paul Gallagher is an author and journalist who was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2016. He tells us that the term Multiple Sclerosis means ‘many scars’, and how he’s come to claim that ‘my scars are my human ministry as much as my spiritual ministry’.
Adriel Booker is a speaker and author whose latest book is Tethered to Hope: The Quiet Kindness of God in Crisis, Change, and the Spaces In Between.
This is a conversation about the twists and turns life takes, how crisis changes us, and how it introduces us to the people we didn’t know we were.
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Paul Gallagher’s website, featuring his post ‘How to stay happily married, in under three hours a day’ and why he’s ‘not scared of machines taking over’
Adriel Booker’s website
Adriel’s book Tethered to Hope: The Quiet Kindness of God in Crisis, Change, and the Spaces In Between
Adriel’s book Grace Like Scarlett: Grieving with Hope after Miscarriage and Loss