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April 2021

April 01, 2021

Not by the Book

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

March 2021

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...

February 06, 2021

Dark Devotional: I Have Questions

The Job story does NOT sit well with me. At all. Why, I wonder,...

September 2017

September 21, 2017

Songs As Sanctuary: Jenn Morson on Johnny Cash

Ever since I can remember, when I saw Johnny Cash, I saw my dad.

April 2017

April 21, 2017

Dark Devotional: Pardoning Thomas

I was hospitalized twice for a total of 28 days in a period of 38 days for...

March 2017

March 08, 2017

It Didn’t Count: Sexual Assault and Virginity

“An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable,...

January 2017

January 10, 2017

Praying with Depression (and Children)

"I want us to recite the Lord’s Prayer together in the mornings as a family...

December 2016

December 01, 2016

Dark Devotional: Tourists vs. Pilgrims

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

September 2016

September 21, 2016

Art Won’t Make You a Better Person

A guest post from a Lutheran Sick Pilgrim, Joel Westerholm I’m in what I hope is...

July 2016

July 10, 2016

Dark Devotional: Who is My Neighbor?

There was a scholar of the law who stood up to test him and said,...

June 2016

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 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 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 22, 2016

The Dark Devotional: Christians Drive Me Crazy

"My children...This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love...

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...