Cross purposes; On this, the day before Easter, the cross looms before Christians. Its meaning remains contested and elusive, and the dialogue and disagreements won't abate after Sunday.(NEWS)

From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | Date: March 29, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

The Rev. Tom Carkhuff was a young priest in Aitkin, Minn., when he and his parishioners launched themselves into a renovation of St. James Church. It was 1980, and a sticking point was what prominence the cross should get.

Above the altar hung a 7-foot crucifix, showing an agonized, crucified Jesus, framed by gold cloth against a canopy bristling with lights. Should the cross, a symbol that predates Jesus, be kept in its present position, or, say, moved and shrunk?

"I would have preferred a processional cross, the body on one side and the exalted cross with metal and ...

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