chapel

Tiny Greek churches inhabit land everywhere in the mainland and islands of Greece, even uninhabited bits of rock sticking above the sea. They are the houses of the spirit; churches or temples, yes, in the way the mainstream cultures understand them, but even more omnipresent in every nook and cranny of Greek life. Some churches are no bigger than large phone-booths, and some must be crawled into. They are located wherever anyone has felt the motion of the spirit and has determined that this place is holy.

Churches in this sense are the location of spiritual content and expression, and that expression can take many forms. Much of the Christian content of the local Greek traditions are synthesized with ancient, demeaningly called "folk", traditions, as is the case of the Mermaid Icon shown on the Images page. But in truth, all of spiritual truth is a synthesis of the history of human experience.

We have chosen the form of the Greek church to represent our Chapel of Women, because it is a container well suited by tradition to hold truths encountered in the course of human experience. The truths here contained would not be found in most real world churches and chapels, but the use of the Greek form is consistent with tradition, and eminently appropriate.

The Chapel of Women contains and connects symbols of our theme, the brokenness of male and female human people, and a vision of the dream of balance someday achieved.