*Please note: This is the Winter 2015 edition of OP, intended for international shipping calculations.

In her address at the 2014 LCWR assembly Nancy Schreck, OSF explored the concept of living and ministering in what she termed “the middle space.”  As she noted, religious life is currently in a middle passage with “the in-breaking of something new, of major shifts in world view, our cosmology, with the concurrent breakdown of so much of what is familiar.” 

The Winter 2015 issue of Occasional Papers will explore the challenges of embracing religious life in the middle space and the potential of these times. Articles will examine

  • Leadership in the middle space
  • A closer look at the LCWR Call 2015-22 and its relation to the middle space
  • The prophetic identity of religious life for these times
  • Thriving in the middle space
  • Perspectives on religious life in the middle passage from a younger religious
  • The middle space created as one crosses cultures
  • Unmasking long-held assumptions

The issue also includes an interview with John Sivolon, MM, author of God’s Mission and Postmodern Culture: The Gift of Uncertainty.