What Really Makes a Nation Christian

HERE is a modern mystery play. The Great North Passion used shipping containers, instead of medieval guild carts, to tell the story of the death and resurrection of Christ. The Passion did not come to you; you had to move to it. That was apt; for ours is now a culture where religion is chosen as much as inherited.

BBC Television masterminded the event on Good Friday, placing 60 containers in a park in South Shields, in a cathedral-sized cruciform. A dozen of the containers had sat for the past month in towns across the north-east, where people had worked with artists to create 12 Stations of the Cross.

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