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Monday, December 9, 2013

Not Like D. Bowie's - It's Different Than That

            A number of years ago at my home church in San Diego, they built an outdoor labyrinth in the back corner of the church property. I walked by it often. I knew it was used for prayer, but I was always suspicious that it was syncretistic, melding some sort of weird spirituality into Christian prayer. Why do we have a labyrinth?
            It was with this same curiosity that I stood on the pebble mat on Monday and breathed deep, holding a question in my mind like a fragile egg, trying to prepare myself for the experience. I took a