Mark Brickman

Crossing borders: growing in Christ

4 July 2018Some places and territories we might call ‘borderlands’. They are places ‘betwixt and between’; for example, those territories at the edge of countries or between land and sea. In life we travel through spiritual borderlands too. They are places of passage, often of dislocation and pain, yet places through which we grow. I think our culture, by contrast, does little to equip us for life transition. It seduces us with self-modification through retail purchase, cosmetic surgery, or tabloid…