Steps to the Cross

David Mahlowe was an actor, writer, TV presenter and interviewer who, in the late 1960s was compared, for his skills in ‘the delicate art of TV confrontation’, with Malcolm Muggeridge and Bernard Levin. A fine Shakespearean actor, he worked in repertory, film, TV and radio before moving into TV presenting and interviewing. He and his wife Marah Stohl were lead actors for Manchester Library Theatre in the 1950s. In this book he shares the insights which he gained through a lifetime’s study of Shakespeare, art, religion and philosophy, in a series of talks which he gave between 1995-1998. Literary executor of the artist Eugene Halliday, with whom he had written Shakespeare King Educator, he founded the Melchisedec Press to publish Halliday’s writings. A short illness led to his early death in 1998.

Foreword – i

1 – The Only Religion – 1

2 – Being is Suffering – 19

3 – Completion – 38

4 – The Anchor – 56

5 – The Ark – 72

6 – Advent – 89

7 – Epiphany – 106

8 – Yeshua – 125

9 – Another Easter – 141

10 – Qabel – 159

11 – Are We Puppet or Free? – 201

12 – And All for the Love of a Lady – 201

13 – Insulation – 220

14 – Here I Stand – 238

15 – Incarnation – 255

16 – Steps to the Cross – 271

17 – The Last Step to the Cross – 288

Afterword – David: A Contribution from Zero – 206

Poem – ‘Is this the changing moment’ - 317