The Morning After Coventry
On November 15, 1940, Provost Richard Howard picked his way through the smoldering ruins of Coventry Cathedral. German bombers had reduced the 600-year-old sanctuary to...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Isaiah 60:1-6.
On November 15, 1940, Provost Richard Howard picked his way through the smoldering ruins of Coventry Cathedral. German bombers had reduced the 600-year-old sanctuary to a skeleton of charred walls and shattered glass. The medieval roof timbers lay in heaps of ash. England's spiritual heart felt torn open. But Howard did something that morning that no one expected. Standing amid the rubble, he took two charred roof beams and bound them together into a cross.…
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