charity.9 At its best, visual art enables us “joyfully to imagine that things need not and will not go on just as they are but as God will have them,” to paraphrase Stanley Hauerwas.10 At its best, finally, visual art and architecture can enable us to perceive the world as the theater of God’s glory and to love it as God loves it. Controversy around the visual and architectural shape of corporate worship has, of course, marked every era of church history.11 On one side stand the cautionary voices,