Orientation
On the Equinoxes (about March 21 & about September 23), the Sun rises exactly in the East wherever you are on the planet (except of course on the 2 Poles!).
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Presiding East or West?
What do you think: is distance maybe as much or possibly even more of a discussion to be had than which way the priest faces? And somewhere in this discussion is a sense of transcendence and a sense of immanence.
Boiling Frogs and a Guru’s Cat
It is past time for many communities to look honestly at their community, their buildings, and their statistics.
What Shape is your Altar?
Encouraging and enabling a community to gather around the altar table.
Architecture Shapes Us
How liturgical space works, how gesture, vesture, movement, and so forth impact the reality of worship, possibly far more than getting the text just right.
Architecture Affects The Soul
The long-overdue plan is out for more than 120 new homes set to be built in Christchurch’s East Frame. This is inner-city living one block away from Cathedral Square. I am distressed and sorely disappointed. We may be about to create a future housing disaster in the centre of our city. Expressed most strongly: Fletcher
Our Buildings Shape Us
Someone recently sent me an article with the title “One in six young people are Christian as visits to church buildings inspire them to convert” about a study that indicates that for young people a visit to a cathedral or church building has been more significant in their decision to become a Christian than, say,
Different is Better?
This is a blog post about worship. I promise. Read on. I have watched recordings of the TV programme The New Zealand Home. There is an unquestioned, articulated doctrine that having an area of houses where all share a similar style, a similar look, is undesirable. We see this doctrine at work in the Christchurch