Many Christians found it impossible to adjust to the growing focus on buildings and personalities that began to characterize the Church in the fourth century. They fled to the deserts or the walls of monastic foundations to be free of what they considered the distractions and drift of churches throughout the Roman Empire. Their efforts may have suited a few, but they continued to drive wedges into the unity of the Body of Christ. Here is Part 4 of our blank verse essay, Absimilation, entitled “An Unworthy Path.”