title: Soul Space: Ancient Realities in Post-Modern Worship Spaces
author: Kevin Callahan
description: Kevin Callahan is an architect, liturgical design consultant and cultural anthropologist specializing in participatory assembly environments with both a Bachelor and Master of Architecture degree. His specialty is in balancing the lessons from the past in prehistoric assembly environments with the high technology of the future.
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  # 1
  
  The half-ruined rear wall of the Reborn Shrine held itself up as best it
  could. A thousand Colleners kneeled in the hard sunlight, gazes turned down to
  the ground. Hundreds of Mallish soldiers lay prone on the flagstones, blood
  staining the geometry of the grout.
  
  And Dante stood alone.
  
  The Keeper had declared him a god. The avatar of Arawn, arrived, as
  prophesied, to fight back the Mallish and free the Collen Basin from centuries
  of torment. As the Colleners kneeled before him, he could feel the yearning
  roiling off them like stink off a dog. They needed him. Not just for his
  skill. But for what he represented: the hope that he might finally break their
  cycle of warfare, rebellion, and slavery.
  
  Dante knew two things: first, that