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MAKING CROSSES: A CREATIVE CONNECTION TO GOD

Making Crosses introduces a new spiritual practice of making crosses from broken and found objects. This new practice is for those who want to experience God beyond day-to-day prayers. More than analytical thinking, the practice of making crosses offers a way of prayer where understanding comes from doing.

Making Crosses takes the reader step-by-step through the process of making a cross. Using materials unvalued by this world, the cross-maker communes with God while creating a personal cross. Working with the most complex symbol of Christianity—the cross—transforms our relationship with God, ourselves and the world around us.

Ellen Morris Prewitt is an award-winning writer who turned to making crosses after the tragedy of 9/11. Her writings have appeared in Image, Relief, River Teeth, The Rambler, Brevity, and elsewhere. She was the Peter Taylor Fellow in nonfiction at Kenyon College Summer Writing Program; her commentaries aired on the local NPR affiliate for many years. She lives in Memphis, Tennessee where, in addition to making crosses, she facilitates a writing group of men and women who live on the street.