Re-pitching the Tent in Philadelphia:
The Transformation of a Cathedral

The bishop’s chair emerges organically from the surrounding seats. Throughout Christian history, every fresh insight into the nature and love of God, every reform or revival, has been worked out in bricks and mortar as well as in tracts and texts.

 

Worshipers facing one another across a central aisle hearkens back to ancient synagogue practice. The re-ordering of the church building can be the catalyst by which a parish community is recalled to the pilgrim path, to the adventure of going with Jesus into the unknown, to essential Christianity. … Like the house-churches of the early centuries, our buildings should provide us houses which can become homes for the Christian assembly, showing us how to be fully human in order that we may become more fully church.

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