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January 2022

January 13, 2022

Dark Devotional: From Good Wine to Bitter Faith

Weddings are stressful, even when everyone is behaving themselves. When people start misbehaving, weddings can...

January 07, 2022

Dark Devotional: Faith is a Tension

I’ve had a cold ever since returning from my Christmas holiday extravaganza with family...

November 2021

November 05, 2021

Dark Devotional: Can We Live on Bread Alone?

The first reading this Sunday is the story of the woman who shared her last...

May 2021

May 14, 2021

Dark Devotional: When Apologetics Fail

Twenty years ago, when this tired millennium was fresh and youthful, so was I. I...

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...

January 2021

January 24, 2021

When a Good Catholic Girl Goes Bad

I was so skinny as a teenager that the pediatrician started asking concerned questions...

January 22, 2021

Dark Devotional: Haunted by God

Four years ago, I parked my wheelchair behind the rows of pews in the...

July 2018

July 20, 2018

Dark Devotional: Bigger Than Holy Dirt

Original art by the sparkly and crystalline Brian Jocks. "There is nothing so secular it...

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...

June 2018

June 15, 2018

Dark Devotional: Opus Scientiae

Art by the stellar and Cartesian Brian Jocks. Some years back, I was having a...

March 2018

March 11, 2018

Introducing Robert Saler – On Being Protestant and a Sick Pilgrim

Why would a Protestant want to be part of Sick Pilgrim? There are basically two...

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...

January 2017

January 19, 2017

Dark Devotional: We must be crazy

Mark 3:21: For they said: He is become mad. He was crowded by so many...

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 23, 2016

A Christmas Card to Those Who Go to Church Once A Year, Love Sick Pilgrim

Every year, my local church divides each Mass on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day into...

September 2016

September 20, 2016

Mud Wrestling with Angels Unawares: When Catholic Art is Dark (Or Ugly)

As a Catholic poet, I was excited to read this article about why the Catholic...

August 2016

August 13, 2016

Come Back, Elliott: A Man Writes a Tear Stained Review of Pete’s Dragon

(Spoilers ahoy) When the original Pete's Dragon came out in 1977,...

February 2016

February 15, 2016

A Band of Misfits

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