Book cover for The Things He Carried: A Journey to the Cross: Meditations for Lent and Holy Week by Stephen Cottrell

The Things He Carried

A Journey to the Cross: Meditations for Lent and Holy Week

2008 Released
96 Pages
0-1 Hours
Audiobook Unavailable
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SPCK PublishingISBN 9780281062928

Stephen Cottrell brings home, vividly and poignantly, the physical reality of the passion story.

The narrative of Holy Week is powerful and painful, and because we know how the story ends it's easy to gloss over the difficult details, and stay in the comfort zone of our understanding. The Things He Carried is a book to stimulate thought, provoke discussion and create space for contemplation.

'In order to understand the cross you need to stand under it . . . with the imagination as well as the mind... This book aims to help in that process... But however you use it – on your own or with others - I hope you will receive some small appreciation of just how much the cross weighs, and maybe even pick it up yourself.'
From the Introduction

Stephen Cottrell

STEPHEN COTTRELL is Archbishop of York and the author of many books. Other contributors are likely to include: HOSAM NAOUM, the Palestinian Anglican Archbishop in Jerusalem; RACHEL TREWEEK, the Bishop of Gloucester; DOMINIC BARRINGTON, Dean of York Minster; GRAHAM USHER, Bishop of Norwich; CHRISTOPHER CHESSUM, Bishop of Southwark.; GULI FRANCIS-DEHQANI, Bishop of Chelmsford. Plus other church leaders from around the Anglican Communion; disciples to the Holy Land, and Christians who have experienced persecution from various parts of the world (not only Palestine).

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