What is the Cross?

Saturday August 29th 2026, in Newburyport, Boston and Taunton - please join us to consider this ‘Big Question’.

Each year at TSPC we gather to consider a question central to our faith. Last year we asked, ‘Where is God?’ and in 2024 we were wondering, ‘Why Pray?’

This year we’re asking the question, ‘What is the Cross?’ What does that question mean? Are we thinking of the solid object on which Christ was crucified, or of what it represents? Has it changed as a symbol over time? What does the Cross mean to us today?

‘What is the Cross?’ days will be hosted on August 29th at St. Paul’s Newburyport, St. Thomas’ Taunton, and the Cathedral Church of St. Paul Boston, 10am to 2.30pm. You are warmly invited to join us at whichever location works for you! Tea and coffee will be served at the start of the day, and you are invited to bring a packed lunch. 

Please sign up to attend, here.

All participants will receive materials which they can bring back to their home congregations, to continue the conversation and learning. We will also share that booklet here. You can find previous ‘Big Question’ booklets here:

Where is God?

Why Pray?

Why go to Church?

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Transformative Prayer: Ancient Practices from the Monastic Tradition: Centering Prayer, Lectio Divina and the Gospel of Thomas