Shrine-Building in Four Easy Steps

Shrines are funny. Sometimes they are carefully engineered, with an esoteric architecture that speaks to the builder's private relationship with the divine-- and sometimes, they crop up out of nowhere, clusters of devotional objects gathering with a curious gravitational pull to any flat surface that has open space. Today's Roundtable post is about the former: the kinds of shrines we create with conscious effort, as a launching point for our conversations with the gods.