Labyrinth at SMU Perkins School of Theology
University Park, Texas, United States
On the SMU campus at the Perkins School of Theology, a permanent labyrinth serves the seminary's formation programs and the university community. It is walked where the Southwest's Methodist clergy have long been trained.
On the SMU campus at the Perkins School of Theology, a permanent labyrinth serves the seminary's formation programs and the university community. It is walked where the Southwest's Methodist clergy have long been trained. The Labyrinth Locator's record lists it as a Medieval 7-circuit, Chartres-inspired path; installed 2009.
Every labyrinth is a walking practice, not a puzzle: a single path winds to a center and back out, and the walk is done slowly, as prayer or meditation. The pattern descends from the medieval pavement labyrinth at Chartres, and the modern urban revival began in the 1990s when Lauren Artress brought replicas of that path to American congregations and public grounds through Veriditas and the Labyrinth Society, whose World-Wide Labyrinth Locator now catalogs thousands. There is no branching and no trick to the path; walkers of every religion and none use it.
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