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What is a church? Is it simply an organization? A building? A shelter or
concept?
These are questions that church organizers wrestle with all of the time.
For the staff of Grace Cathedral, a 100-year-old Gothic cathedral that sits,
solemn and imposing, on San Francisco’s landmark Nob Hill, the answers
were not exactly what they wanted. The building itself is a magnifi cent city
icon, but its historic architecture did not exactly present a welcoming face.
In fact, the structure presented just the sort of scowly, stiff, somehow judg-
mental face that many city residents moved to San Francisco to escape.
But behind the cathedral doors, ...