Reflection: Week 9 [Monday]

Carnivalesque is significant, for Bakhtin offers a legitimate, state sanctioned space for otherness of "world upside-down" in which the rules are broken, alternative truths are visualized and difference is embraced. It is in this space that the marginalized community disrupts the stable silence of official lives and identities.

The small group that I started in Seattle was called "outkast" and based our identity on similar thoughts. Moreover the Church doesn't appeal to the outcasts in society and many young people in their 20's and 30's feel on the outside looking in most of the time. The Emerging Church movement is keying on some of the marginalized people, but the Church as a whole has a long way to go.