It is Good Friday so the subject matter for the day’s reading presented itself easily enough. Choosing what to read, however, was a very different matter. There is so much.
In the end, I plumped for a profound and moving section from Uncle John’s masterwork, The Cross of Christ. It is a book I have returned to again and again. It deserves rereading.
And for our purposes here, it gives us a triple whammy: some extraordinary testimony (from Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel); a narrative (entitled ‘The Long Silence’), and a poem (from Edward Shillito).
So here it is; if the video does not display, click here.
- On John Stott see the Langham Partnership page and this one here
- to get The Cross of Christ
- Elie Wiesel on Wiki
- To get Wiesel’s Night
- The text of Edward Shillito’s Jesus of the Scars.
The artworks in the video:
- Photo colourising by the uniquely gifted Marina Amaral
- Installation of the Cross in Lubeck by Ludger Hinse
- Tenebrae by Erica Grimm-Vance
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Mark, thank you very much. Wonderful presentation of the pathos of the day.