

Showman David Bowie was enigmatic about his religious views, yet his recent death from cancer brought tributes from the Church. Blogger Tom Kershaw noted, ‘Bowie is more disenchanted with religion than he is with God.’ Justin Welby said, ‘I’m very saddened to hear of his death; I remember listening to his songs and relishing the impact he had.’ The president of a leading evangelical school in New York City tweeted a photo of himself performing a Bowie song, and one of the first to note his passing was a senior Vatican official who tweeted lyrics from Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ that finished, ‘God’s love be with you.’ Bowie is reported to have said, ‘Questioning my spiritual life has been germane to what I was writing.’
Crosswinds Prayer Trust was founded in 1994, at Nailsea, near Bristol in the South-west of England by Canon John Simons. Its aim is to mobilise, inform, connect and equip people in Christian Prayer...
Crosswinds
20 Sunningdale Road
Worle
Weston-super-Mare
North Somerset
BS22 6XP
Director: +44 (0) 1934 - 235777