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Why go on a pilgrimage? By Dr. Les Fairfield

11/18/2016

 
PictureDr. Les Fairfield
Why do Christians go on pilgrimages?  Several reasons.  First, to enrich our imagination.  When I first went to Israel, I spent a day sitting along the shore of the Sea of Galilee.  I looked across the lake to the same brown hills that Jesus would have seen.  The sun was warm, and there were two fishing boats with gray sails out on the water.  All at once I could imagine Jesus standing in a fishing boat, a little way out on the lake, teaching the crowds on the shore and giving them hope.  Now years later, remembering that scene helps my imagination live into the Gospel Story. 

​Second, pilgrimages remind us that God works in 
specific times and places. Christianity is not an abstract philosophy...


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Christian Heritage in England   By: Margaret Duggan

8/26/2016

 
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Reflections on one of Connoisseurs’ First Pilgrimages, circa 1988
“This is where I feel my Christian roots are,” said Bob, the Episcopalian priest who was the group leader of our tour. “I really feel at home here with the early English church, its liturgy, its monasteries, and its saints.”
We were standing in the ruins of a medieval priory on the holy island of Lindisfarne off England’s northeast coast. For part of each day Lindisfarne really is an island, ...


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