Articles by Mark Johnson
Mark C. Johnson serves as Executive Director of the Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice, an asset of the Community of Living Traditions at the Stony Point Center in Stony Point, New York. He served 37 years with the YMCA, both nationally and internationally, before his 7-year role as the executive director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (USA), reflecting his activist position as a pacifist and environmentalist. He has a Ph.D. from Columbia University in the City of New York and a BA degree from The College of Wooster, in Ohio.
by Mark C. Johnson
The notion of sacred places generally makes for good religion but poor theology. Great stories such as the one of the burning bush, Peniel, and the Mount of Olives, offer wonderful and metaphors, but what do they draw us toward? What makes a conference center hosted library for example, or a sanctuary, a dwelling place, sacred spaces?
