KC, I love and admire your love and admiration for other faiths. Keep sharing. Also, that church. Gorgeous. And I love that it is open TO ALL. Not just the worthy. Whatever that even means.
KC, I deeply resonate with this piece on visiting a cathedral and your feelings about the temple, and it is very similar to some things I am trying to write right now. Thank you so much for sharing this experience. This week, I visited St. Joseph's Oratory, an immense space. I actually went inside to get out of the rain, and was surprised at the spiritual experience I had inside, which like yours, had largely to do with beautiful art and the very different spaces and ways to interact inside. I am bored at the temple after the recent changes. As much as I applaud changes that have made the temple marginally less sexist, and more consent-oriented, I disagree with the current efficiency and the passivity. I miss there being an actual film, it really helped me engage it. I miss practicing the steps during the endowment. I miss standing up. There are parts that used to invite me to feel awe, imagine God, and ponder how God works that are simply gone now. We have gutted some of the old language like we've gutted the SL Temple. I took a class in college about communal memory that talked about how ritual language is to be preserved throughout time, I feel our leaders have not prioritized that enough.
Cici, your prose resonated deeply. Thanks for sharing!
KC, I love and admire your love and admiration for other faiths. Keep sharing. Also, that church. Gorgeous. And I love that it is open TO ALL. Not just the worthy. Whatever that even means.
Kim, I think you have given us all a good journal prompt. Who am I? Thank you.
KC, I deeply resonate with this piece on visiting a cathedral and your feelings about the temple, and it is very similar to some things I am trying to write right now. Thank you so much for sharing this experience. This week, I visited St. Joseph's Oratory, an immense space. I actually went inside to get out of the rain, and was surprised at the spiritual experience I had inside, which like yours, had largely to do with beautiful art and the very different spaces and ways to interact inside. I am bored at the temple after the recent changes. As much as I applaud changes that have made the temple marginally less sexist, and more consent-oriented, I disagree with the current efficiency and the passivity. I miss there being an actual film, it really helped me engage it. I miss practicing the steps during the endowment. I miss standing up. There are parts that used to invite me to feel awe, imagine God, and ponder how God works that are simply gone now. We have gutted some of the old language like we've gutted the SL Temple. I took a class in college about communal memory that talked about how ritual language is to be preserved throughout time, I feel our leaders have not prioritized that enough.