They travel far from home and walk unfamiliar paths along age-old routes, following in the footsteps of generations who walked before them, to arrive at a holy place. Every year, thousands of secular souls who may never attend a Sunday service or recite a creed devote weeks or months of their lives in personal, feet-on-the-ground pilgrimage. A dramatic loss of religious faith in the northern and western world marches side-by-side with a return to ancient religious practices, including pilgrimage. In the firehose of news cycles, there comes a great longing for reality, a longing to know by direct experience what’s palpably true. We’re linked to people, information, and wisdom from around the world via ports we carry in our pockets, and we find ourselves among a sea of lost souls, floating free in the chaos of the post-modern world. It is an age of connection, it is an age of isolation. A Feature Review of A Pilgrimage to Eternity:įrom Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faithīuy Now:
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