Irish Voices on Faith, Spirituality and Art

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I grew up in a Baptist church, and in a fundamentalist faith. The church building was extremely plain but on the front wall behind the pastor’s pulpit there was a fresco - a light blue vista with the words ‘Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.’  I spent long parts of my childhood and teenage years looking at those words. I often wondered what the beauty of holiness looked like.