Practicing Pilgrimage: On Being and Becoming God's Pilgrim People

Practicing Pilgrimage: On Being and Becoming Gods Pilgrim People explores both the theological cultural and spiritual roots of Christian pilgrimage and is a how-to book on doing pilgrimage in our suburban backyards city streets rural roads churches retreat centers and our everyday life. Brett Webb-Mitchell takes the ancient practice of Christian pilgrimage and applies it to our contemporary lives. This is a wonderful book deep in its understanding that prayer is a journey--a step at a time. It is Bunyans progress updated still Christian Catholic and Protestant. At times it struck me as Buddhist. I can imagine anyone--religious or not--finding its insight into the moment under our feet where we always find ourselves as important as the place where we think we are headed. --Richard Rodriguez author of Darling: A Spiritual Biography Brett Webb-Mitchell is a pilgrim speaker writer teacher ordained Presbyterian pastor parent partner and pet lover. Currently Brett is a pastor serving St. Andrews Presbyterian Church Portland Oregon having been on the faculty of Duke University and North Carolina Central University in Durham North Carolina. Author of two other pilgrimage books--Follow Me (Seabury) and School of the Pilgrim (Westminster John Knox)-- Webb-Mitchell directs the School of the Pilgrim (www.schoolofthepilgrim.com) taking people on pilgrimage around the world and in their backyards.