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September 2016

September 28, 2016

Things Keeping Us Alive, Sep. ’16

If you are like us, the season between the overstuffed summer and the barren winter...

September 23, 2016

Dark Devotional: The Mad Balancing Act

This week’s Gospel reading is Jesus’ postmortem parable of the nameless rich man and the poor...

September 07, 2016

“For the [Not Quite] Dead”

When I was a junior in high school, I was having a rough time. Learning...

August 2016

August 29, 2016

Things Keeping Us Alive, August ’16

August 2016. This month had much fodder for brooding. And here at Sick Pilgrim, brooding...

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 04, 2016

We Don’t Need Another Hero

Last week Jonathan asked me to write about Sick Pilgrim's mission and/or "charism." The way I understand it,...

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...

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 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...

May 22, 2016

Surprised by Dangerous Joy: Lessons from Chewbacca Woman

By now, everyone has seen the video of Chewbacca woman, the lady who buys a...

May 20, 2016

Friedreich’s Ataxia Awareness- Dark Devotional

Note: May 21 is Friedreich’s Ataxia Awareness Day. Part of me is afraid that I...

April 2016

April 21, 2016

A Eulogy for Prince

Huh? Prince can’t die. Prince isn’t even human. Prince is ageless, immortal. Prince does not get...

April 12, 2016

(With this post, we're kicking off a series called Popular Piety, exploring the physicality and magic...

March 2016

March 31, 2016

The Dark Devotional: St. Thomas Didymus: A Heart Made Double by Breaking

Thomas, called Didymus, one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So...

March 28, 2016

A Mid-Life Report Card from St. Peter…..

(We are taking a week off here at Sick Pilgrim. So, Jess and I...

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 22, 2016

Losing It: Colleen Mitchell Reads Seth Haines

I’ve been reading Seth Haines’s memoir Coming Clean, soaking up his call to make my...

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 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 17, 2016

The Danger of a Clean Faith: Colleen Mitchell

I’ve heard it for as long as I can remember, how it's our job to...

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...