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April 2016

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 24, 2016

Good Friday Dark Devotional: The Day God Abandoned God

Matthew 27: 45-46 From noon onward, darkness came over the whole land until three in...

March 16, 2016

St. Patrick, Five Songs and Three Books for a Pilgrimage (It Begins)

At 3:00 P.M. today, St. Patrick's Feast Day (appropriate, considering he was a...

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 07, 2016

Sick Pilgrim Interview: Dave and llyssa Kyu and their National Park Story Project

(We at Sick Pilgrim love pilgrimages, stories and the National Parks. So, when we...

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 28, 2016

We’re the Church that Bans Puppies, Kitties, Movies and Other Things You Love (Not really, but it’s fun to say!)

"Through his works, the artist speaks to others and communicates with them. The history of...

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 22, 2016

The Misadventures of a Pilgrim Dad: Teaching my Kids to Embrace the “White Martyrdom.”

Two weeks ago, I wrote about the pilgrimage that I'm taking with my kids. When...

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 08, 2016

The Misadventures of a (Divorced) Pilgrim Dad

I’m not ashamed to say the new Star Wars movie made me cry. But...

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 11, 2016

The Revenant: Meditations on Redemptive Suffering

*Spoilers ahead* To be honest, I wasn't prepared for what I saw. From what I’d...

December 2015

December 10, 2015

Welcome, Sick Pilgrims

"...people often seemed perplexed by Frank and Maisie's enthusiasms, and published them with little hope...