Many of you will be aware that I recently have returned from a big sabbatical trip to churches in Canada and the United States.
I was there to learn and reflect and grow and I did that by making contact with the most interesting folk I could find in church life on the other side of the North Atlantic.
Inevitably I spent quite a lot of time poking around churches over there and coming from this cathedral, I was interested in what cathedrals over there were up to.
Which is how I found myself in the National Cathedral in Washington DC just a day or two after the American Election in November.
It is a mighty building. Far bigger than we are but when I saw it, it was not looking its best. Still recovering from an earthquake which wobbled all its stonework, they have netting strung all across the nave to catch falling fragments. So you stand in this enormous church unable to look up and appreciate the great spaces.
Unable to look up, instead I went down. For underneath the nave is a maze of twisty passages which lead (more…)
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