"The more he watched churches, the more they seemed like living creatures with personalities. There were stone churches on the corners of older neighborhoods, some of them erected in the 19th century. Their solidity seemed to transcend movement and change, as if ancient hammers had pounded them into place to keep the town from blowing away like a tarp in the wind." -- Real Live Preacher (Gordon Atkinson), 207-06-27 (RLP has a syndicated feed on LJ as preachermanfeed; I haven't gotten around to checking whether RSS feeds have already been configured at GJ, IJ, or Blurty)