Edgewalking the hemline

On the edge of the inside

Living, loving and sharing from the edge of the inside: grounded in the mystical lineage of Christianity woven together with the wisdom of other traditions, nature and my own profound mystical experiences of the Divine.

The provocative term edge walker comes to me from a Center for Action and Contemplation meditation quoting Victoria Loorz [1]  on September 15, 2023. She gives credit for the term to nature writer Terry Tempest Williams,[2] whose edge walking is described as traveling “the narrow space between the religious tradition she credits for having ‘forged her soul,’ and her direct and very personal experiences in nature that have revealed a truth of their own.” [3]

[1] Victoria Loorz, Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred (Minneapolis, MN: Broadleaf Books, 2021), 14–16. 

[2] Benjamin Webb, “In Search of Our Fugitive Faith: Terry Tempest Williams,” in Fugitive Faith: Conversations on Spiritual, Environmental, and Community Renewal (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1998), 163. 

[3] Sarah McFarland Taylor, “Williams, Terry Tempest,” in Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, vol. 2, K–Z, ed. Bron R. Taylor (New York: Continuum, 2005, 2008), 1752.