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A lot of you are thinking about the buildings you aren’t worshipping in right now. This pandemic has prompted both nostalgia and hard reassessment. What do we miss? What could we still do? What use is the building anyway? One of the most vivid and poignant accounts I’ve read comes from Angela Tarango, and it’s a reflection on “The Gym” at La Trinidad United Methodist Church in San Antonio, Texas. She conjures the sights and sounds and smells and tastes of all the events that used to happen there. “The gym is where food is shared. Where celebrations are recorded. Where the dead are mourned.” She says, “Now the gym sits empty. More so than the empty sanctuary, the empty gym haunts me.” So... Read More →