“What links these places of worship? What is it that a corrugated-iron structure, clinging to a South African hillside, has in common with the soaring buttresses of a French cathedral town? What does an austere puritanical meeting room in the American Midwest have in common with a Rococo extravaganza in Eastern Europe? What thread is there that weaves together churches across continents and denominations and time?
“I would argue that it is their stories: that is what they have in common. Specifically, ‘the’ story, that of Christianity itself. But what these churches show is that Christianity is not just one story — the story we all know, whether believer or not — but a whole patchwork of interlinking ones.”
