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August 2016

August 11, 2016

Dark Devotional: Enduring Unto Death

Hebrews 12:1-4 Brothers and sisters: Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Things that kept us alive in July

Yo guys, Matt here. Again this month, I bothered my fellow sick pilgrims to come...

July 27, 2016

Resistance is our Charism: Why Sick Pilgrims are Catholic rebels with a cause

People are always asking what Sick Pilgrim is about and what we want to accomplish....

July 22, 2016

Dark Devotional: An Argument with St. Paul about some Biblical Platitudes

"Not only that, but we even boast of our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance,...

July 15, 2016

Dark Devotional: Finding Jesus on the Floor

But a Samaritan traveler who came upon him was moved with compassion at the sight....

July 04, 2016

Interview with a Drunk Ex-Pastor

About a year ago, as I was growing more and more disillusioned with the reflection...

June 2016

June 29, 2016

Things Keeping Us Alive, June Edition

Time to set our sights on what is amazing, what gives us joy - however...

June 17, 2016

Dark Devotional: Grief as Treason

“On that day the mourning in Jerusalem shall be as great as the mourning...

June 10, 2016

Dark Devotional: Lazarus Syndrome

He cried out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, tied...

June 05, 2016

Standing on My Head

“Do you recognize that as self-harm?” the therapist asks me at the tail end of...

May 2016

May 24, 2016

Things Keeping Us Alive – May edition

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a...

May 10, 2016

The North Remembers–Kind Of–On Good Days–If You’re Lucky: A Note From Sick Pilgrim’s Viking Correspondent

I laugh when my Facebook feed advertises some inspirational book or other called The Way of...

April 2016

April 19, 2016

Catholic-Attracted? Come Sit By Us. A Reflection on the Festival of Faith and Writing

We're still recovering from our first-ever Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin College--where Jonathan and...

April 07, 2016

Dark Devotional: Broken and Multiplied

My husband and I lived in Edinburgh, Scotland for three years in graduate school. We...

April 07, 2016

Bringing Catholic Magic Back

An article in The Atlantic grabbed our attention last week--about young Jews embracing the more traditional practices...

April 06, 2016

Sick Pilgrim Now Has Two Things in Common with the Pope

1. We're Catholic. 2. We share a publisher. We're writing a book for Loyola Press,...

March 2016

March 21, 2016

Entering the Story: The Imaginative Power of Traditional Worship

When my friend Amy converted to Catholicism ten years ago, she wrote me a letter confessing that she...

March 16, 2016

Wanted: Spiritual Director for Two Sick Pilgrims

In my first post for this blog, I wrote that we were setting up a...

March 15, 2016

The Things that are Saving Our Lives Right Now, March edition

“One must do things sometimes to make life more bearable.” --St. Teresa of Avila While...

March 10, 2016

Catholic Books Even a Protestant Could Love

I'm not Catholic, but some of my favorite books are. I came of age during...

March 08, 2016

First Ever Sick Pilgrim Discussion Shindig and Hootenanny During Holy Week! (Details Inside)

So, along with the many developing Sick Pilgrim media things (Radio show with Breadbox...

March 02, 2016

Coming Soon: The Sick Pilgrim Travelin’ Medicine (Radio!) Show

When we decided to start Sick Pilgrim, we imagined it as more than a blog. We wanted...

February 2016

February 25, 2016

Uncle Jonathan’s Top Five Sick Pilgrim Books of All Time

In case you haven't noticed, we like to read around these parts. Sharing...

February 23, 2016

Wayfarers All: The Gifts of an Unsettled Life

There’s a chapter in Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows called “Wayfarers All.” I remembered...

February 18, 2016

Review of The Third Inkling, a biography of Charles Williams (a very Sick Pilgrim indeed)

Two weeks ago, my review of The Third Inkling, a biography of Charles Williams, was...

February 15, 2016

A Band of Misfits

The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. (Matthew 4:17) "Heaven must be messy." --Eric Elnes, Gifts...

February 01, 2016

How Writing a Foreword for an Inkling Smashed My Idols

A few years go, I was having dinner with the editor of my first two...

January 2016

January 26, 2016

Sick Pilgrims: Jack Kerouac

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are...

January 18, 2016

I Hate Authority. That’s Why I’m a Catholic.

A few years ago, I sat at a bar in Canada during a fierce snow...

January 12, 2016

Sick Pilgrim: The Catholic Church is a Hot Mess…and I love Her

Two years ago, I was confirmed in the Catholic Church with a group of eighth...