Rebecca Kirkpatrick, in her Bread Not Stones blog article, “Attachment Worshiping: sharing the pew with one another” says, “We tend to think of the most sacred places in our sanctuaries as behind the pulpit, table and font or even beneath the cross, but the pew is just as holy. The space between us in the pew is sacred as well.”
She recounts stories and examples of that sacred pew space for people of all ages and wonders, “So if this space is so holy and so vital to our relationships with significant others, with our colleagues, with our friends, with our community of faith, how much more important is it to our relationships with our children?”
Read her entire article here.