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The Accidental Pilgrim

Maggi Dawn
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Author : Maggi Dawn
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781444702996

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Pilgrimage has been an important practice for Christians since the fourth century, but for many people these days it is no more than a relic of church history, utterly irrelevant to their lives. In THE ACCIDENTAL PILGRIM author and theologian Maggi Dawn shares her own gradual discovery of what it means to be a pilgrim, and suggests ways in which we can rediscover this ancient spiritual discipline in our global, twenty-first century world. Study trips to the Holy Land, frustrated pilgrimages as a young mother and internal journeys of soul all feature in this beautiful and inspiring memoir. Exploring both the past and the present of pilgrimage, it is a compelling invitation to all on the journey of faith.

The Accidental Pilgrim

Anna Kappa
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Author : Anna Kappa
Publisher : Anna Kappa
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781449588670

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Talian Unsuana has never been better than average - in fact, average, for her, is pretty good. When she's not being average, she's more or less insane. The birds and the beasts, even the weather, talk direct to her head. She tries to drown them all out with EDDs (electronic distraction devices). She prefers computer games to the real world, and often gets the two mixed up. Hence, when Talian finds herself hanging upside down in the midst of a storm on a deserted mountainside one day, she's not sure how seriously to take her situation. It looks real enough; it feels real... If only the voices in her head would cut it out! Voices. The strangest thing about them is that they consistently give her good advice. Seems the thing that keeps her alive also keeps her insane? Whatever, the mountain is full of monsters and disasters, and the voices are telling her to run... Must she run forever? Can she fight back? If the world is fake, is there any point? If it's real, what could she possibly do? She's average. No question there. With so much self-doubt to overcome, Talian seems poorly placed to vanquish the worst monster of them all, the one in her own mind. But that's the monster she must harness if she wants to avert the catastrophe that threatens not only Lellia, but the whole Hasserican Empire. The Accidental Pilgrim describes a little known period of the Hasserican Empire. Based on primary sources and written by a first-hand witness, it has good claim to being the most authoritative account ever published. This newly translated edition is the first to appear in English. More information: http://cheravel.wikidot.com

The Accidental Pilgrim

Judith Sornberger
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Author : Judith Sornberger
Publisher : Shanti Arts Publishing
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781941830192

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Once a "nice pagan girl," acclaimed poet and scholar Judith Sornberger recounts her journey through faith in this beautiful personal memoir, highlighted by a trip to Italy. As a professor of English and Women's Studies, Sornberger had long been interested in the female role in scripture, iconography, and religious literature. When she began questioning her personal choices regarding Church and religion, Sornberger was drawn to art to find some answers. Her journey through the churches and museums of Italy, gazing upon powerful images of scriptural scenes, led her to insights into the place of Mary, along with other women, in a life of faith and service. Within this carefully told narrative and full-color images of many of the works of art that inspired Sornberger, the reader will find much to influence his or her own remarkable journey of faith.

The Accidental Pilgrim

David Moore
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Author : David Moore
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0340832487

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After one Silicon Valley project meeting too many, David Moore returned to Dublin with too much money to get a real job, and no idea what to do next. The Accidental Pilgrim follows the recovering dotcommer as he rides two thousand miles across Europe in pursuit of himself and the Celtic saint Columbanus - the Roy Keane of the early medieval Church. A bad-ass early Irish saint who wouldn't stand for such ephemeral notions as identity crises, if anyone could sort the craic-loving but well-mannered young man, Columbanus would. On the way to the saint's final resting place in Northern Italy, there are bee-stings in Malin Head, melting roads along the Loire, and instant celebrity in eastern France. A freewheeling traveller's tale with a dash of medieval history thrown in, The Accidental Pilgrim presents an unlikely double-act and a rewarding journey.

The Accidental Pilgrim

Stephen Kitsakos
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Author : Stephen Kitsakos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0996102914

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Crossing several decades, this novel explores the intersection of science, religion, and the unexplainable. Summer of 1974, Dr. Rose Strongin disappears for three hours at an archaeological dig on the Western shore of the Sea of Galilee. Twelve years later, she begins to put the missing pieces together, but it is not until the family gathers to say goodbye to this strong matriarch in 2014 that the family secrets start to make themselves known.

Pilgrim Spirituality

Rodney Aist
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Author : Rodney Aist
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666709438

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A pilgrim-themed spirituality for Christian formation, Pilgrim Spirituality resources everyday Christianity, congregational life, social outreach, and religious travel through definitional frames of pilgrimage. Pilgrimage is a prominent biblical image. Yet, despite its contemporary resurgence, its capacity for Christian formation remains untapped. While our understanding of pilgrimage has been too narrow, we lack a definitional framework that fosters transformational practice. Definitions matter, thought creates possibilities, and intentionality enhances experience. Recognizing pilgrimage as a comprehensive expression of the Christian life, Pilgrim Spirituality provides tools for perceiving spiritual possibilities, engaging situational context, and interpreting lived experience. Espousing both personal and social holiness, Pilgrim Spirituality gives definitional status to the Other, attends to the self, and seeks the presence of God in the facts in which we find ourselves. Pilgrim Spirituality examines Christian concepts of time, place, and journey, while emphasizing the personal, corporate, incarnational, metaphorical, and tensional character of the pilgrim life. Exploring the motives, experiences, and practices of pilgrimage, Pilgrim Spirituality resources readers in their destinational pursuit of the Christian faith: the union of God, self, and the Other.

An Accidental Pilgrim

Maria Z Caponi
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Author : Maria Z Caponi
Publisher : Atmosphere Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798891321366

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In An Accidental Pilgrim, retired physicist and Argentinean immigrant Maria Caponi, a non-religious widow of Jewish heritage, takes readers on a transformative journey along the rugged and challenging "El Camino de Santiago" trail. While it may seem like a typical hiking story, Maria's memoir is anything but ordinary. Her prose and poetry are woven together to create a tapestry of her life, including her childhood in Argentina, her experiences as a graduate student in the U.S., her marriage to her best friend, and the many journeys that have shaped her identity. An Accidental Pilgrim is a memoir that will resonate with anyone who has embarked on a journey of self-discovery. Maria's words invite readers to explore the world's beauty and complexity, reflect on the past, and embrace the unknown possibilities of the future. --- "Maria Caponi invites us along on an arduous, wondrous journey, as she hikes El Camino with a group of friends, learning again and again to love herself, her one precious life, the beautiful world in which she finds herself, wherever she goes. In the process, the reader also falls in love with this pilgrim - vulnerable, funny, warm, wise, and deeply human as she is." -Cecilia Woloch, Poet, writer, Fulbright Foundation fellow, Pushcart Prize award winner, author of Tsigan, the Gypsy Poem.

The Many Voices of Pilgrimage and Reconciliation. CABI Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Series

Ian S McIntosh,Lesley D Harman
The Many Voices of Pilgrimage and Reconciliation CABI Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Series Book PDF

Author : Ian S McIntosh,Lesley D Harman
Publisher : CABI
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781786393265

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The Many Voices of Pilgrimage and Reconciliation. CABI Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Series by Ian S McIntosh,Lesley D Harman Pdf

Reviewing peace and reconciliation, secular pilgrimages, and international perspectives on sacred journeys, this book offers the reader an opportunity to encounter multiple voices and viewpoints on one of the most ancient practices of humankind. With an estimated third of all international travellers now undertaking journeys anticipating an aspect of transformation (the hallmark of pilgrimage), this book includes both spiritual and non-spiritual voyages, such as journeys of self-therapy, mindfulness and personal growth. An innovative and engaging addition to the pilgrimage literature, this book provides an important resource for researchers of religious tourism and related subjects.

Way of St. James Sketchbook Diary

Tyler Burgess
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Author : Tyler Burgess
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1721832130

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Way of St. James Sketchbook Diary by Tyler Burgess Pdf

My pilgrim's diary sketchbook of 1,800 miles walking solo on the Way of St. James. From Munich, Germany, across Switzerland, across France, across Spain to Santiago and on to the coastal towns of Finisterre and Muxia in watercolor paintings.

Peace Pilgrim

Peace Pilgrim
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Author : Peace Pilgrim
Publisher : Friends of Peace PIlgrim
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0943734290

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Peace Pilgrim was born Mildred Lisette Norman to Ernest and Josephine Norman in 1908 on a poultry farm in Egg Harbor City, New Jersey. Her father was a carpenter, and her mother was a tailor. Mildred Lisette Norman adopted the name "Peace Pilgrim" in 1953 in Pasadena, California, and walked across the United States for 28 years. 'Peace Pilgrim: her life and work in her own words' was compiled by some of her friends in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1982. Composed mainly in her own words except for the reproduced newspaper articles and the introduction. There are comments by people she met while on her 28 year pilgrimage for peace.

Pilgrimage

Sean O'Reilly,James O'Reilly
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Author : Sean O'Reilly,James O'Reilly
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1885211562

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This book showcases a diverse array of spirit-renewing journeys from pilgrims of many kinds from places as far away as Tibet's Mount Kailish and as near as sacred New Mexico soil. A soulful blend of more than 20 stories, "Pilgrimage" is ideal for all with an affinity for travel, a practice of mindful living, and a thirst for the unknown.

Powers of Pilgrimage

Simon Coleman
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Author : Simon Coleman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479811946

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"This book offers a new theoretical framework for exploring contemporary pilgrimage, exploring examples ranging from the Hajj to the Camino, and arguing that pilgrimage activity should be understood not solely as going to, staying at, and leaving a sacred place, but also as occurring in apparently mundane or domestic times, places, and practices"--

Death of a Pilgrim

David Dickinson
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Author : David Dickinson
Publisher : C & R Crime
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780334134

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1905. A young man called James Delaney is dying in a New York hospital. The doctors and the nuns cannot save him. When his life is spared his tycoon father takes it as a miracle and organizes a family pilgrimage to the resting place of the boy's name saint, Saint James the Greater in Santiago de Compostela in Spain, the greatest pilgrimage site of the Middle Ages. The first modern-day pilgrim is killed in Le Puy en Velay in Southern France and Powerscourt is summoned to investigate. The pilgrims' progress across the holy sites is punctuated by further bizarre deaths. After his own life is put in terrible danger Powerscourt finally solves the murders on the day of the Bull Run at Pamplona in Southern Spain where young men race down the cobbled streets pursued by the bulls. The careless are gored to death, but it is up to Powerscourt to beware of the horns and other hidden dangers to finally resolve the Deaths of the Pilgrims.

The Singular Pilgrim

Rosemary Mahoney
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Author : Rosemary Mahoney
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0618446656

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An "enlightening but also very funny" (Paul Theroux) account of one woman's personal quest to find the roots of belief among modern religious pilgrims.

Travels with Mensans

Neil Matthews
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Author : Neil Matthews
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781847533401

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What do Mongolians smuggle on board the Trans-Siberian Express? Where is Paradise and why is it cursed? How do you confuse a mugger in Brazil? In TRAVELS WITH MENSANS, you can find out. You'll also get an insider's perspective on what it feels like to sail a tall ship around the Canaries, to be a guest at a family wedding in Pakistan and to visit some of the world's most beautiful and strangest places. This special collection of travel writing, by members of the high IQ society Mensa, remembers bygone worlds and considers the nature of travel memories, the pros and cons of travelling alone and the effects of tourists on the places they visit. TRAVELS WITH MENSANS -- travel writing to make you think. Net proceeds from the sale of this book go to Medecins Sans Frontieres.