pilgrimage

Flesh and Heart United

Picture the scene: After weeks of preparation for your study leave, you have put on your out-of-office email autoreply. Cover is arranged for each and every Sunday for the next month; the rest of your team is managing the everyday business of church life, and everyone knows that you are not contactable for the next …

To be a pilgrim: transforming our journeys

It made me smile. According to my dictionary, the word ‘pilgrimage’ means ‘the journey of a pilgrim’! But that got me thinking … perhaps there’s something quite helpful there. Maybe what makes a journey a pilgrimage is neither its destination nor the route taken, but rather some quality of the person undertaking the journey. Perhaps …