“It goes without saying that this church is exquisitely ugly, bleak, and depressing….Why do I care? And why should you care? In short: because buildings preach. They proclaim a message to the world about what is true, what is good, and what is beautiful. This is especially true of our most public buildings.” - Mere Orthodoxy
“Nearly 90% of Americans say a church should be ‘easily identifiable,’ and eight of 10 say they want the building to ‘reflect the beauty of God.’” - Church & Culture
“The sound of the eight bells in Notre Dame’s northern belfry came a month before the cathedral is to reopen following five years of painstaking restoration work in the wake of the blaze.” - France 24
How to read what the wood, glass, and stone say about God. - CToday
“Forty years after the birth of the Southern Baptist Conservative Resurgence, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is relocating from the J.W. MacGorman Chapel more than 40 stained glass windows commemorating the era.” - BPNews
“During the anti-Christian fervor of the French Revolution, Notre Dame was turned into a Temple of Reason and rededicated to the atheistic Cult of Reason. Later, when the Committee of Public Safety, which controlled France, decreed worship of a Supreme Being, it was rededicated to the deistic Cult of the Supreme Being.” - TGC
“[I]f you read a book about new urbanism, it doesn’t include churches…. If you look at maps and plans, they don’t assume churches. It’s literally as if in the new urbanism, churches aren’t part of the built environment. But why?” - Patheos
Stained Glass Windows for Churches May Make Comeback With Younger Generations
“Millennials gravitate toward classic, quiet church spaces that feel authentic and provide a break from the busyness of a fast-paced, technological world, revealed a study commissioned by church architectural firms.”
