Pilgrimage

In this season of Lent we journey toward Easter and the theme of pilgrimage is a familair way to make our preparations for discipleship. It is hard to imagine that in the turmoil of Elizabethan England, pilgrimage was itself prohibited as was all use of catholic imagery following The Reformation. The photo above is ofContinue reading “Pilgrimage”

The Ends of the Earth

We find ourselves now in the season of Lent – a journey towards Easter. I am thinking about journeys and pilgrims. The pilgrim walk in NW Spain – The Camino de Santiago de Compostela (also known as the Way of St. James) is not quite on my “bucket list” but it’s close! It might edgeContinue reading “The Ends of the Earth”

Desert

We are not good at doing nothing. We have difficulty being still for more than a few breaths. The desert landscape is at one and the same time inviting and terrifying. To enter into the desert is to leave behind comforts to embrace uncertainty. Yet the journey into and through the desert is not justContinue reading “Desert”