Exploring Sacred Space…

Wow!  I’m impressed with how many folks have been making it out to our Monday night gatherings over the course of the summer. We might not be a community that is mighty big, but we are a group that shows it is committed in other ways. Thanks for making our gatherings a priority, even in the summer.

Last week I tackled a fairly sprawling idea (or at least in my hands it turned into a sprawling idea) – why is it that the sacred spaces we build have a tendency to turn into historical artifacts, devoid of the dynamic life of faith with which they began?  In addition to that, why does living faith tend to drift into dead religion? And further still – is this all a problem, or is it a natural process for things to die so that new things can come to life?

This week I want to carry on in a similar vein by exploring some of the ideas about sacred space that come to us from Celtic Christianity – a stream of Chrisitan thought quite different in character from the stream that led to the building of the great cathedrals. It is a realm that thrives in nature, and that is open to mystery rather than committed to mastery.

I look foward to our time together. I’ll try to show up with fewer pages of notes this week…

Peace to you all,

Tim