S2 E29: Deb Gregory: Ignatian Spirituality, Disability in the Church, Living Liminally

Liminal Living

What happens when the church space you helped create and cultivate is not hospitable and inclusive of those in your own family with neurodivergent minds? Deb Gregory shares her story of traversing liminal spaces from her childhood into her professional career and how Ignatian spiritual practices have helped “moor” her to her faith and family.

Deb is a spiritual director, former documentary filmmaker and church planter, and the founder of Flourish Contemplative Center. She is also the producer and host of the Betwixt Podcast. Having spent much of her life in transit, Deb enjoys the slow growth of roots with her family in Ormond Beach, FL.

Where she enjoys listening with you: Flourish Spiritual Direction
Where you can enjoy listening with her: Betwixt Podcast

Time Stamps for the episode:
00:48 Introductions
02:50 What is Liminal Space Anyways?
06:37 Living in two worlds, belonging to neither
11:35 Where is home?
14:25 Faith roots, paradoxes, and contradictions
18:49 Lack of common spaces to hold paradox
22:08 Deconstruction as expected season of faith
27:17 Liminal seasons built into the liturgical calendar
32:39 Making space for folks in liminality
38:47 Neurodiversity and Disability in the church
44:26 Ignatius taking a cannonball to the knee
50:11 Ignatian spirituality 101
55:53 Ignatian practices
1:01:19 Pastors in liminal seasons
1:05:42 Inscape: the particular beauty of this moment
1:09:37 Conclusions

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