Golfers are known to take God’s name in vain when they miss a shot, but at England’s Rochester Cathedral they’re being urged to be more prayerful while playing miniature golf—inside the Cathedral.
The recently-installed course runs down a long section of the nave, and has nine holes with obstacles resembling bridges; according to Rev. Rachel Phillips, one of the cathedral’s canons, the hope is that “visitors will reflect on the bridges that need to be built in their own lives and in our world today.”
Not everyone is pleased with the idea, calling the course, which will be open through August, an “act of desecration.” But another cathedral canon quoted the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who has told clergy that “if you don’t know how to have fun in cathedrals then you’re not doing your job properly.”
