The Cross in the Ruins of Coventry
On the morning of November 15, 1940, Provost Richard Howard picked his way through the smoldering skeleton of Coventry Cathedral. German bombers had reduced six...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Isaiah 11:1-10.
On the morning of November 15, 1940, Provost Richard Howard picked his way through the smoldering skeleton of Coventry Cathedral. German bombers had reduced six centuries of English stonework to rubble the night before. Nothing but charred walls and a gutted nave remained. The great tree of English faith in that city appeared cut to a stump. But Howard did something remarkable.…
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