Pilgrimage Stories From Up and Down the Staircase
Matthew Anderson teaches in the Dept of Theological Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. During the pandemic, he gets his exercise not from long-distance walks, but in going up and down his stairs. While he does, he remembers past pilgrimages.
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Episodes
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Did my walk with locals along a pilgrimage in Iceland in 2016 turn out to be a "pilgrimage fail"? I check back with one of my Icelandic fellow walkers to find out.
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
I walked from Dovre to Trondheim with five other Canadians in 2013. On the path, I spoke with Dr Allen Jorgenson about Saint Olav, the trail, and being Scandi-Canadian.
Thursday Aug 13, 2020
Thursday Aug 13, 2020
After walking barefoot across the ocean floor to Holy Island, I met Kate Tristram, who set me straight on how Cuthbert would have arrived in the seventh century!
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
I didn't know Clare when I met her on the St Cuthbert Way between Melrose Scotland and Holy Island. But she knew she was waiting for me.
Monday Jul 27, 2020
Monday Jul 27, 2020
There's no Saint Olav anymore at the end of the long walk to Trondheim, but given how stunningly gorgeous the plateaus, mountains, and valleys are, did our group of Canadian walkers care?
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Interested in finding out about some great walks? Meeting some interesting people? "Pilgrimage Stories" is almost as good as being out on the trail, whether on the Whithorn Way in Scotland, or on Treaty Four territory on the Great Plains!