The Things He Carried: A Journey to the Cross: Meditations for Lent and Holy Week

by Stephen Cottrell

Publisher:

SPCK Publishing

, 2008

Overview

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

Contents

Introduction xi
1 The cross 1
2 A crown of thorns 11
3 A seamless robe 21
4 His followers’ disappointments 29
5 The hopes of God 37
6 The sins of the world 47
7 Our sorrows 55
8 A broken heart 63
A prayer 75

Product Details

• Title: The Things He Carried: A Journey to the Cross
• Author: Stephen Cottrell
• Series: The Things He
• Publisher: SPCK Publishing
• Print Publication Date: 2008
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 96
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9780281062928, 9780281060801, 0281060800, 0281062927
• Resource ID: LLS:9780281062928
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T22:47:54Z

About Stephen Cottrell

Stephen Cottrell is the Bishop of Chelmsford and was formerly the Bishop of Reading. He has worked in parishes in London and Chichester, as Canon Pastor of Peterborough Cathedral, as Missioner in the Wakefield diocese and as part of Springboard, the Archbishop’s evangelism team.