Moral Disorientation and Time-in-Between

This paper explores moral disorientation as an affective experience of temporal rupture. Interweaving short audio clips, images, and analytic commentary, I read everyday pastoral disclosures through phenomenologies of dis/orientation, vertigo, and hesitation developed by Sara Ahmed, Ami Harbin, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, and Alia Al-Saji. I argue that moral disorientation disorderly reorients bodies in and out of time with God and the world, generating ambivalent intervals of indetermination where moral and temporal orientations can either be unsettled or renewed. The presentation contrasts pastoral strategies that resynchronize congregants into linear futures guided by divine providence with homiletic practices that sustain affective and temporal wobble as an opening toward queer/just futures.