It’s not hard to imagine what the average Christian will think when they learn that a Swiss-born British writer wants to construct a tower in London as a monument to atheism. For most Christians, the initial response will be shock, followed soon by outrage. Why, these militant atheists just don’t… [more]
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When historic churches suffer Esau congregations
A recent article in an online edition of The Atlantic calls attention to a problem for many urban churches: the care and feeding of their old building is sometimes more than the dwindling congregation can bear. The article raises an interesting question: what are - or should be - the… [more]
Images, icons and faith
Images are powerful. More than “holding a thousand words,” as the adage goes, images carry a power and weight that can strike us to the core. They speak to the depths of our emotional, social and spiritual lives in ways that we cannot always verbalize, but which impact us nonetheless.… [more]
Weeping with Sudan
When I was 20, I made a solo trip to Grand Rapids, Mich., to see a photo exhibit. A friend had informed me about the work of Ryan Spencer Reed, a photographer who spent time in Sudan. I had learned about the civil wars in Sudan and the genocide that… [more]
The 9/11 Memorial and healing through architecture
Dan Euser, a Christian landscape architect, says he experienced God’s hand and grace at work while consulting on the design of two fountains of cleansing, cascading water that are a key part of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Located on the 16-acre site in New York City where… [more]
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Joel VanderWeele Part of what made the churches and cathedrals of yesteryear so great was that they served as the centers of community life and culture; houses of worship in the broadest and best sense...
Temples to atheism
Ed It looks to me like older, beautiful urban churches find themselves in problems as much for the lack of real vision on the part of the believers who attend them as anything else.
When historic churches suffer Esau congregations