Artist Jaap Cok, who is preparing an installation, 'Heaven and Earth' for a Crossroad service later this year. Jaap's three paintings for Easter 2007, on Genesis, Isaiah and the Cross were a very moving Easter focus.
One of the great things about February is that it is the month when you finish the books that came at Christmas. For me, this has meant coming to the end of Sara Maitland's wonderful 'A Book of Silence'. Maitland is a Catholic, a novelist and short-story writer and a committed feminist. She also went to Oxford with Bill Clinton, which has no relevance to her book but since she manages to mention it, I don't see why I shouldn't.
This is a rare shot of prayer at the very heart of the Crossroads HQ... A former store-room now serves as a permanent prayer room, and once a week we gather as a staff team to pray. Call it the Tabernacle... Call it a Sabbath for the staff team...whatever language you use, it is our attempt to place abandoned, surrendered passion at the heart of our work... Joy!
