On Easter, 2014, Britain's best-loved vicar, the Rev. Richard
Coles, led a pilgrimage to all the major historic sites of the Holy
Land: from Nazareth and the Sea of Galilee in the North, via
Jericho and the Jordan River, to Bethlehem and, finally, Jerusalem.
All of the pilgrims in his care were practising Christians, except
one: the writer Kevin Jackson, a diffident and sympathetic atheist
intrigued by the chance to take part in this modern-day version of
an ancient act of piety, and to learn some more about his old
friend, the media clergyman. Coles to Jerusalem is Kevin Jackson's
light-hearted diary of that pilgrimage, and a close-up portrait of
Richard Coles both as priest and as man. As the journey proceeds,
Coles reminisces at length about his past life as a rock star and
radical gay agitator, his new life as a spiritual leader and a
popular broadcaster on BBC radio and television, and the strange,
unpredictable path that led him from self-destructive debauchery to
faith and vocation. With a lively supporting cast of fellow
pilgrims, Coles to Jerusalem ranges among the magnificence of
ancient monuments and the banalities of the guided tour, the grim
political background of contemporary Israel and the comedy of a
group of idiosyncratic English folk abroad, the intensity of
worship and the lightness of banter. It will be irresistible to all
admirers of Richard Coles, who has contributed a foreword; and a
revelation to those who have never encountered his wisdom and
warmth.
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