Fire and Knowledge » Architecture http://www.fireandknowledge.org A web site by Joshua Sowin that addresses culture, books, technology, ecology, religion, and other topics. Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:13:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The purpose of steeples (Robinson) http://www.fireandknowledge.org/archives/2007/04/26/the-purpose-of-steeples-robinson/ http://www.fireandknowledge.org/archives/2007/04/26/the-purpose-of-steeples-robinson/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:42:40 +0000 Josh Sowin http://www.fireandknowledge.org/archives/2007/04/26/the-purpose-of-steeples-robinson/

When I was a child I actually believed that the purpose of [church] steeples was to attract lightning. I thought hey must be meant to protect all the other houses and buildings, and that seemed very gallant to me.

–John Ames in Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (2004), 114

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