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.
Episodes
Aug 27, 2020
Aug 27, 2020
29 min
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.
Aug 20, 2020
Aug 20, 2020
32 min
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.
Aug 13, 2020
Aug 13, 2020
23 min
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!
Aug 5, 2020
Aug 5, 2020
21 min
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.
Jul 27, 2020
Jul 27, 2020
17 min
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?
Let's Chat While We Walk
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!