of signs and symbols through which it communicates its particular identity. And suppose we envision ourselves as cultural anthropologists, ethnographers who are seeking to exegete and thickly describe the signs and symbols of congregational life in order to better understand its unique identity. Where do we begin? Amid the myriad of verbal and nonverbal, oral and written, auditory, visual, and tactile symbols through which congregations give witness to their distinctive identities, how do we identify