Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

Sick Pilgrim

Home
Catholic

Pilgrims

Select a Category Advent Approaching Mystery art Book Reviews Catholic Ghost Story Catholicism community Confession Current Events Dark Devotional Deconstruction Deconstruction Fellow Travelers I Want To Believe Interview Laudato Si Lent Mary Matthew's Letters Movie Reviews Music Reviews Our Charism Personal Essay Pilgrims Pope Francis Popular Piety Prayer Publishing Richard Beck Saints Satan Sheed and Ward Sick Pilgrim Charism Sick Pilgrim Chats Sick Pilgrim Events Sick Pilgrim Travelin' Medicine Show Sick Pilgrimage to The West Sick Pilgrims Small Joys Spiritual Autobiography Spooky Files of Ave Maria Magazine Spooky October Spooky Pilgrim Spooky Pilgrimage Strange Journey The Inklings Things Keeping Us Going Trying to Say God TV Reviews Uncategorized women in the Catholic Church Wonder Podcast Write the Vision

Select a Month February 2022 January 2022 December 2021 November 2021 October 2021 September 2021 August 2021 July 2021 June 2021 May 2021 April 2021 March 2021 February 2021 January 2021 December 2020 April 2020 March 2020 February 2020 January 2020 December 2019 October 2019 September 2019 July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 February 2018 January 2018 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015

March 2021

March 25, 2021

Still on the Road

This is a continuation of our Lenten Series: Sick Pilgrim's Progress on pilgrimage. You can...

March 11, 2021

Keep Walking, Keep Letting Go

This is the fourth week of our Lenten Series: Sick Pilgrim’s Progress. You can read...

March 04, 2021

Taking the Long Way Home

This is the third week of our Lenten Series: Sick Pilgrim's Progress. You can read...

February 2021

February 25, 2021

Pilgrimage of the Soul

This is part of a Lenten series on pilgrimage. Find the first part here. When...

July 2018

July 18, 2018

Sick Pilgrim Goes to the Movies: Kiki’s Delivery Service

If you happen to visit our house sometime and find yourself invited down to our...

March 2018

March 26, 2018

An Offering in Betrayal – A Holy Week Meditation

"Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack,...

June 2017

June 16, 2017

Trapped in the Nightmare: A Bloomsday Dark Devotional

June 16 is Bloomsday -- a special day for Irish literary geeks, on which fans...

May 2017

May 11, 2017

I Walked into Suffering on the Road to Santiago

“For as long as humans have walked, they have walked to get closer to their...

May 08, 2017

The Theology of Suffering Questions the Benedict Option

Allow me to tell you a story. A few years ago, I went through the...

April 2017

April 12, 2017

13 Reasons Why: Netflix Invites us to Spiritual Works of Mercy For Holy Week

(Two alerts. This review talks about rape, bullying and suicide. It also contains a lot...

January 2017

January 13, 2017

And The Title For The Sick Pilgrim Book Is….

Jess: What do you think we should name our book? Jonathan: I dunno, what...

December 2016

December 19, 2016

Advent: The Catholic Church IS the Rebellion

A few days ago, I was talking about the new Star Wars movie, Rogue One...

December 14, 2016

Adventures of an Agnostic in the Weird World of Catholicism

When my roommates first told me that they were going to get time off...

December 01, 2016

Dark Devotional: Tourists vs. Pilgrims

An archeologist writes about the empty tomb. He says, “Pilgrims come to touch Golgotha and...

November 2016

November 28, 2016

Advent: Kicking your Darkness

Since I first heard the song in college, I've meditated on a lyric by Canadian...

November 19, 2016

Fantastic Magic and Where to Find It

(Spoilers ahead, so don't whine.) Full disclosure: I'm a huge fan of the Harry Potter...

November 14, 2016

Radical Spaces of Welcome

“That’s one kind of localism, I guess, and one kind of politics – doing your...

November 07, 2016

Bear One Another’s Burdens This Election Day.

I looked around at my fellow Confirmands, most of them hiding zits with heavy doses...

September 2016

September 08, 2016

Dark Devotional: I Don’t Believe in the Fatherhood of God, do you?

When it comes to the story of the Prodigal Son, it's hard to...

August 2016

August 29, 2016

3 Things That Every Convert/Revert Wants Cradles to Know (No, This Ain’t a Cosmo Article)

Since I work in the Disneyland for Catholics (Notre Dame), I see all kinds of...

August 24, 2016

Lament for the Louisiana Flood

I was born and raised in southern Louisiana, and flooding was a fact of life in...

August 24, 2016

The Mystery is Right Next to Us. Learn How to Find It.

In The Empire Strikes Back, Yoda pokes Luke Skywalker with his walking stick and...

August 05, 2016

Dark Devotional: Grab Your Loins and Go

Growing up in the Midwest, I have a few rough edges. Jess (and other women...

July 2016

July 20, 2016

Sick Pilgrim Chats: Jonathan and Jess Bingewatch Stranger Things

Sick Pilgrim started when we, Jess and Jonathan, two writers and editors, started chatting...

July 18, 2016

I went to Communion and You’ll Never Believe What Happened Next!

I saw that it is the will of Christ’s love to be put into the hands...

June 2016

June 26, 2016

Destroy the Walls: Modest Proposals for a Renewed Catholic (and Christian) Literary Imagination

A few weeks ago, a friend called me a "blue collar writer" and then...

June 17, 2016

Dark Devotional: Grief as Treason

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

June 08, 2016

Saint Jude, Sick Pilgrims, and Other Lost Causes

St. Jude, patron of lost causes, pray for us sick pilgrims. A common practice in...

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...

April 2016

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...