Stephen Jenkinson ~ Matrimony: Ritual, Culture, and the Heart's Work

Описание: Stephen Jenkinson—author of the award-winning Die Wise, creator of the Orphan Wisdom School, and a renowned teacher of grief, culture, and elderhood—discusses his provocative new book, Matrimony: Ritual, Culture, and the Heart's Work.

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In a time of sham rites of passage and self-congratulation disguised as ceremony, Jenkinson calls us to reclaim the true purpose of matrimony and ritual, warning of the real consequences when public ceremony is abandoned. He explains that “matrimony and patrimony are village rites, a communal affirmation of the village’s ways of going on, sometimes not quite knowing how to.” The village deserves a rite to recognize the seismic change matrimony brings. Blending vivid storytelling, historical context, cultural reflection, and personal experience, Matrimony explores cultural memory, ritual witnessed rather than performed for an audience, radical hospitality, wedding vows as commitments, and belonging to something older and truer than self or marriage, inviting readers to contemplate and redeem these rites for future generations.

Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW, is a cultural worker, teacher, author, and ceremonialist. He is the creator and principal instructor of the Orphan Wisdom School, founded in 2010. He has master’s degrees from Harvard University (theology) and the University of Toronto (social work). He’s the author of Come of Age, the award-winning Die Wise, Money and the Soul’s Desires, and Reckoning (with Kimberly Ann Johnson).

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Host: Ross McKeachie
Event Producer: Jacob Steele