A friend of mine recently referred me to an excellent talk by Denis McNamara, an energetic and extremely knowledgeable historian on the liturgical importance and implication of Church architecture. For reactionaries concerned with transcendental representations and the need for a coherent and recognizable social order, this is a talk you can’t miss. McNamara is a Roman Catholic, but his sensibilities shouldn’t offend anyone except those, perhaps, of an iconoclastic bent.