The Rev. Canon Eugene Sutton rises out of his chair in mid-sentence and strides confidently around the room to demonstrate the medieval Christian technique of walking a “prayer labyrinth.”

“You just walk a path,” he says in his office at the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland on University Parkway. “People are so out of balance. It’s all go, go, go. The labyrinth helps you slow down, go to the center and linger there.”