“Beauty will save the world,” Dostoyevsky famously wrote in his novel, “The Idiot.” Certainly beauty is a subjective thing, and one can reasonably find it in the most highly decorated space as in the simplistic bareness, when it is true. And in the places meant for religious worship, beauty must always be true, if it will serve. While in college, one of my sons dated a lovely girl who had moved from an ersatz atheism into Christian Orthodoxy…
