What my bad sermons made bland, our sanctuary made sweet.
architecture
When religion thrived in New York
Jon Butler’s dazzling study of faith and practice in a 20th-century metropolis
American buildings, streets, and neighborhoods don’t just host oppression—they embody it.
European churches are currently engaged in an architectural culture war. This is startling given how weak the churches themselves have become.
When you pray at LA's cathedral, you are part of humanity past, future and in the inglorious, unromanticized present.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the persecuted Orthodox Church began its resurrection. Nothing better illustrates this revival than the restoration of the cathedrals and churches.
