Thought for the Week: The People of the Cross?

'The People of the Cross?' by Alastair McIntosh

by Alastair McIntosh 6th March 2015

The Cross today might seem obscure. Not so, in the so-called ‘Islamic’ State’s recent video of beheading twenty-one Coptic Christians. Its captions make two mentions.

The first proclaims: ‘A Message Signed with Blood to the Nation of the Cross.’ The red jumpsuits worn by the impending martyrs evoke Guantanamo Bay. They define the nation in question, its shadow side played out in cultic drama. They define our nation too, by special relationship.