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FROM RACHEL YATES, PRESBYTERY EXECUTIVE
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IN-BETWEEN SPACES
There is a sweet spot between the known and the unknown where originality happens; the key is to be able to linger there without panicking. - Ed Catmull (Pixar)
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An increasing number of practical resources are ready to guide leaders through (1) living through a pandemic while (2) facing challenges to the relevance of the church in a post-Christian era in the midst of (3) unprecedented political division with a looming general election as we (4) confront upended and intolerable practices in our legislative, administrative, and judicial systems. Our sense of normalcy is ending, and something else is emerging that we can't yet see. For the moment, however, we're stuck in the middle, between the known and the unknown. Ed Catmull, Pixar's co-founder, labeled it a sweet spot for originality. Similarly, the word "svaha" is attributed to an indigenous language to mean the space between the thunder and lightning - perhaps a space in which we might imagine and dream and wonder. Some describe this disorientation as a
liminal space: poised at the threshold.
No matter how we describe this space of disorientation, we're there. We've got it all (see items 1-4 above for starters). The key, Catmull says, is to
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THE NITTY GRITTY, DOWN-N-DIRTY OF GA
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