Church buildings are primarily and fundamentally houses of public worship. When I read about architecture students musing about ways in which they might find "new opportunities to define a sacred place in such activities as performing music or making art; in moving their bodies through space in the medium of dance; in digitally connecting with people and events around the globe, etc." I have to wonder if they're not putting the emPHAsis on the wrong syLLAble. 

If they are to fulfill their primary function as serving as worship spaces, it seems to me that church buildings first and foremost ought to express and embody the theology of the gathered faith community. Isn't that what all church buildings are supposed to do? Isn't one of the guiding principles of architecture the axiom that "form follows function?" If the primary function of churches is worship that ought to be THE guiding principle behind any worship space. There was precious little discussion about that in this article.