The Tension of Emergence: Thriving in a world that remakes, not breaks
Jennifer England
65 episodes
2 months ago
In this practice episode, Jennifer England invites you into the courageous act of consenting to be undone. Drawing on her recent conversation with cultural worker and author Stephen Jenkinson (Matrimony: Ritual, Culture and the Heart’s Work), Jennifer reflects on how, in a world filled with urgency, grief, and collapsing certainties, true participation requires both patrimony (our inheritance of grief, beauty, and obligation) and matrimony (a ritualized consent with the unseen). From this lar...
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In this practice episode, Jennifer England invites you into the courageous act of consenting to be undone. Drawing on her recent conversation with cultural worker and author Stephen Jenkinson (Matrimony: Ritual, Culture and the Heart’s Work), Jennifer reflects on how, in a world filled with urgency, grief, and collapsing certainties, true participation requires both patrimony (our inheritance of grief, beauty, and obligation) and matrimony (a ritualized consent with the unseen). From this lar...
On Matrimony, Mothering Culture and the Undoing of Self with Stephen Jenkinson
The Tension of Emergence: Thriving in a world that remakes, not breaks
1 hour 17 minutes
4 months ago
On Matrimony, Mothering Culture and the Undoing of Self with Stephen Jenkinson
In this festive wedding season, what if matrimony wasn’t here to affirm the intensity of love between two people but a courageous submission to the unknown? Jennifer speaks with Stephen Jenkinson—cultural activist, author, ceremonialist—about the necessary burdens of love through the ritual of matrimony. With characteristic poetic edge, Stephen challenges the Western obsession with autonomy, authenticity and safety and gestures toward a redemptive cultural project: one of radical hospi...
The Tension of Emergence: Thriving in a world that remakes, not breaks
In this practice episode, Jennifer England invites you into the courageous act of consenting to be undone. Drawing on her recent conversation with cultural worker and author Stephen Jenkinson (Matrimony: Ritual, Culture and the Heart’s Work), Jennifer reflects on how, in a world filled with urgency, grief, and collapsing certainties, true participation requires both patrimony (our inheritance of grief, beauty, and obligation) and matrimony (a ritualized consent with the unseen). From this lar...
