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1 month ago | 
morefullyalive.substack.com | Elizabeth Oldfield |Sharon Blackie |Caroline Ross
Upgrade to paid to play voiceoverI have found myself trying to write fiction lately, for the first time in more than a decade. I have no idea whether it will ever come to anything, because good fiction is incredibly difficult. Amongst the generalised difficulties, I have been interested to find one specific barrier within myself that I did not expect: part of me does not take stories seriously.
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2 months ago | 
morefullyalive.substack.com | Elizabeth Oldfield |Clementine Morrigan |Dougald Hine
Upgrade to paid to play voiceoverThe question is, of course, what do you feel to be your task? Where the fear, there is your task!Carl Jung There is a phrase I find myself saying a lot recently: “I have a strange vocation”. In recent months I have spoken at events chaired by atheist philosophers, Mormons and high Anglican priests, for audiences whose political and metaphysical persuasions varied wildly.
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2 months ago | 
morefullyalive.substack.com | Elizabeth Oldfield |Sarah Wilson |Alex Evans
Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Not expecting this newsletter? Well spotted! I usually write fortnightly but it seems I have a lot to say at the moment. Normal service will resume shortly. Comment Magazine has recently published an adapted extract of Fully Alive. In the rewriting I added a line which became the title for the piece: “my personal soul work for the end of the world”.
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2 months ago | 
morefullyalive.substack.com | Elizabeth Oldfield |Jules Evans
This is a reminder of an online conversation I’ll be co-hosting with over at Ecstatic Integration next Tuesday. Over the course of a long friendship we’ve compared notes on our very different paths and our shared interest in experiences of transcendence. We will be sharing our stories, pooling our questions and curiosities and drawing in some perspectives from attendees.
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2 months ago | 
morefullyalive.substack.com | Elizabeth Oldfield |Ryan Burge |Paul Kingsnorth
Note: this post is unusual in that I’m speaking pretty directly to Christians about getting our own house in order. I know you come from all kinds of perspectives, spiritually and politically (which delights me) - if this particular essay is not your jam, you are still so welcome here and normal content will resume shortly. Those of you in the UK might have noticed a change in the cultural mood music around Christianity lately.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
wisdomofcrowds.live | Damir Marusic |Elizabeth Oldfield |Santiago Ramos
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -1:02:57Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. The headlines prove it: we live in turbulent times. , our guest this week, recently published a book — Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times— about how to thrive during such a moment.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
plough.com | Elizabeth Oldfield
On Friday night, roughly as my work day ends, I turn off my phone, my iPad and my laptop and light a candle. It’s a precious moment of peace. Then I jump up, hunt down a housemate, thrust all my devices hurriedly into her arms and ask her to hide them and (this with slightly wild eyes) NOT give them back to me on pain of death for twenty-four hours. Sometimes it works.
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May 23, 2024 | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Elizabeth Oldfield
WHEN I was 22, I went skiing and shattered my left leg, coming home after a helicopter rescue and five days in a French hospital with 21 pins in my tibia and three in my fibula. Four months into my first six-month BBC contract, I was facing a long recovery period with no idea whether I’d still have a job at the end. I couldn’t weight-bear at all for months, and so washing myself, shopping for food, or carrying cups of tea from one room to another was impossible.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
bakerbookhouse.com | Elizabeth Oldfield
Available for Pre-Order. This item will be released on May 28, 2024 + View Product Details Product Details Publisher: Brazos Press Language: English Publication Date: 05/28/2024 Pages: 272 ISBN-10: 1587436507 ISBN-13: 9781587436505 SKU: 9781587436505
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Aug 26, 2023 | 
vpss.substack.com | Daniel Whyte IV |Elizabeth Oldfield
He felt as if he had left a stage behind and many actors. He felt as if he had left the great seance and all the murmuring ghosts. He was moving from an unreality that was frightening into a reality that was unreal because it was new. Who am I? Where do I belong? Questions of identity and belonging are at the heart of aesthetic pursuits. We wrap ourselves in colors and clothes, trying on outfits for size. Outfitted, we try to fit in.
