Looking for something specific? Find all of A Sacred Journey’s posts and episodes from the beginning listed below.
for the pilgrim at home
explore posts on spiritual formation
- S2:E8 | Entering Our Places of Darkness with Vanya Stier-Van Essen
- 7 Reasons Why Uncertainty is Good for Your Journey
- Lean Into Your Journey by Creating a Home Altar
- S2:E6 | Listening to Dreams with Kasey Hitt
- S2:E3 | Mysticism with Amos Smith
- S2:E2 | Coming Out with Daniel Tidwell
- 5 Steps to Engage the Interior Journey
- Pilgrim Podcast 08: Silence + The Contemplative Path with Rich Lewis
- Create a Mini-Pilgrimage Right at Home
- How Do You Want to Know God?
- Want to Learn More About Celtic Spirituality? 7 Books to Get You Started
- How to Pray the Hours
- How to Pray the Examen
- How to Use Prayer Beads
- How to Practice Breath Prayer
- How to Practice Lectio Divina
- How to Practice Centering Prayer
- How to Practice Welcoming Prayer
- Wisdom of the Body: An Interview with Christine Valters Paintner + a Giveaway!
- Comfy, Cozy Hygge: A Danish Pilgrimage Right at Home
- What to Do With the Wait: My (In)Fertility Journey
- My Favorite Resources + Practices for Advent
- 5 Ways Spiritual Practices Can Help You Vote
- A Liturgy for Halloween?
- My Favorite Apps for Spiritual Practice
- How to Create a Brick Garden Labyrinth
- My Struggle with Centering Prayer and Why I Return
- Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S1|E7: Lent + Prayer
- What I Hope to Receive in 2016 (+ my word for the year)
- 3 Ways to Make Your Own Labyrinth
- #GlimsesOfGratitude: Cultivating a Gratitude Practice by Noticing What Shimmers
- 10 Ways to Remember Those Who Have Gone Before You for All Saints’ and All Souls’
- How Yin Yoga is Becoming My Best Teacher This Fall
- Ready to Create Your Perfect Morning Ritual? My Gift to You…
- The Spiritual Practice of Gardening
- 10 Practices to Make Ordinary Time Extraordinary
- Create Your Own Travel Altar
- 3 Spiritual Practices You’re Already Doing (introvert edition)
- Our Daily Bread: The Recipe
- Journey Book Club Discussion: “The Soul of a Pilgrim” (+ a special guest!)
- Finding Myself on the Interior Journey (Plus 3 Tips to Help You Find Your Way, Too)
- Finding God in Nature: Prayers and Practices for Earth Day
- Signs of Emergence: What the Forest Teaches Me about Wisdom
- A Prayer for Valentine’s Day (and every day)
- When I Am Among the Trees: Engaging the Body in Spiritual Practice
- Practice: Welcoming Your Emotions (+ a meditation inspired by Rumi)
- The Spirituality of Daily Walks: Finding God in the Enchanted Forest
- Do You Have a Meaningful Morning Ritual?
- Cease and Feast: Why You Should Practice Sabbath
- Everyday Calls to Prayer: 5 Surprising Invitations to Encounter God, Hidden in Your Daily Life
- Our Father in Heaven, Mystery Beyond Knowing: A Prayer of Abundance
- I Am a Spiritual Misfit: My Journey toward Contemplative Spirituality
- Thoughts from the Other Side: Cultivating Spaciousness as an Everyday Practice
- We Almost Bought a House (on great desire, deep disappointment, and the meaning of prayer)
- When Will I Ever Arrive? (my new spiritual practice)
- So, What is a Spiritual Practice Anyway?
- Labyrinths (I think I’m in love)
- What it Means to Me to be a Monk in the World
- Travel Tip: A Travel Yoga + Prayer Practice
- How to Create a Morning Ritual (+ a glimpse into my own)
- Entering Hesychia: My Spiritual Direction Training Begins Now
- In Which God and I Make Dinner
- Inside the Taizé Community: An Interview with Brother Emile
- Reflections on My Week of Silence and Solitude
- Planning a Personal Retreat: An Interview with Christine Valters Paintner
- How to Practice Lectio Divina
- Redeeming the Scriptures: An Interview with Ronna Detrick
- Celtic Spirituality: An Interview with Tom Cashman
explore posts on the liturgical year
- Pilgrim Podcast 06: The Liturgical Year with Jenn Giles Kemper
- Easter isn’t over yet! Why you should celebrate all 50 days…
- How to Practice Centering Prayer
- Are You, Like the Magi, a Seeker of the Sacred?
- 12 Ideas for the 12 Days of Christmas
- What to Do With the Wait: My (In)Fertility Journey
- My Favorite Resources + Practices for Advent
- A Liturgy for Halloween?
- Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S1|E14: Sending + Travel Companions
- Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S1|E12: Pentecost + the Holy Spirit
- Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S1|E11: Eastertide + Sabbath
- Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S1|E10: Eastertide + Celebration
- Where’s the Easter Egg? (+ an Easter gift for you)
- Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S1|E9: Holy Week & Easter Sunday
- Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S1|E8: Lent & Almsgiving + A Webinar!
- Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S1|E7: Lent + Prayer
- Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S1|E6: Ash Wednesday, Fasting, + the Season of Lent
- Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S1|E5: Ordinary Time
- Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S1|E4: Epiphany
- Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S1|E3: Christmas + Christmastide
- Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S1|E2: Advent
- Introducing the Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast! Listen Now…
- The Beginning of Advent: What’s Stirring Within You?
- It’s Here! The Sacred Seasons liturgical wall calendar (+ an all-new journey shop!)
- 10 Practices to Make Ordinary Time Extraordinary
- What Is Inspiring You? An Invitation for Pentecost
- 25 Ways to Celebrate Life This Easter Season
- This Lent, Make Space for Spring (+ lent resource sale!)
- Celebrating Epiphany: My Word for 2015
- Merry Christmas from A Sacred Journey (+ gifts for you!)
- The Final Days of Advent: How Will You Give Birth to the Holy?
- An Advent Invitation: Keeping Vigil & Waiting with Anticipation
- Blessed by the Animals: An Invitation to Wild Simplicity from the Life of St. Francis (and my dog Sam)
- This Friday Doesn’t Feel So Good…
- Making Space: A Gentle Lent
explore posts on intentional living
- Threshold Journeys: 8 Steps to Take During Seasons of Transition
- Growth Edges: Turn Trials on the Path into Opportunities with this Pilgrim Perspective
- 5 Essentials for Practicing Pilgrimage at Home and Abroad
- Who Are Your Journey Guides?
- 6 Tools for Staying Present to the Journey at Hand
- Letting Ritual Guide Your Journey
- 5 Must-Have Qualities of Journey Companions
- Questions for the Pilgrim at the End of the Day
- My 2019 Sabbatical (+ a Sabbatical Episode with John Valters Paintner)
- S2:E8 | Entering Our Places of Darkness with Vanya Stier-Van Essen
- Lean Into Your Journey by Creating a Home Altar
- S2:E5 | Practicing Pilgrimage in Everyday Life with Pat Loughery
- S2:E4 | Social Change with Shawn Askinosie
- Someone Already Knows the Path You Should Take (and how to start listening to them)
- S2:E2 | Coming Out with Daniel Tidwell
- 3 Creative Practices to Spark the Journey Within
- Pilgrim Podcast 10: (In)Fertility Journeys
- Pilgrim Podcast 09: Solo Travel + Crafting Meaningful Journeys with Amber Englund
- Pilgrim Podcast 07: Vocation + Meaningful Work with Dan Cumberland
- Pilgrim Podcast 05: Rewilding + Journeying with Nature with Mary DeJong
- Pilgrim Podcast 03: The Body + The Sacred Feminine with Jenny Wade
- Pilgrim Podcast 02: Contemplative Activism with Ryan Kuja
- Comfy, Cozy Hygge: A Danish Pilgrimage Right at Home
- The Pilgrim’s Call to Welcome the Stranger
- It’s All About the “Why”: For When You’ve Already Broken Your Resolution
- My Favorite Resources + Practices for Advent
- That Time When the Pilgrims Got It Wrong and Our Invitation Today
- 5 Ways Spiritual Practices Can Help You Vote
- A Liturgy for Halloween?
- All about Sabbaticals on The Meaning Movement Podcast
- Sacred Ordinary Days Podcast, S1|E13: Ordinary Time + Vocation
- 5 Ways to Turn Your Ordinary Trip into a Pilgrimage (+ a FREE pocket guide for your next journey)
- #GlimsesOfGratitude: Cultivating a Gratitude Practice by Noticing What Shimmers
- How Yin Yoga is Becoming My Best Teacher This Fall
- Back to School: 11 Ideas for Learning Something New (and why you should)
- 5 Tips for Creating a Capsule Wardrobe
- Journey Book Club Discussion: “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up”
- 10 Practices to Make Ordinary Time Extraordinary
- 3 Spiritual Practices You’re Already Doing (introvert edition)
- Our Daily Bread: The Recipe
- Journey Book Club Discussion: “The Soul of a Pilgrim” (+ a special guest!)
- Finding Myself on the Interior Journey (Plus 3 Tips to Help You Find Your Way, Too)
- What’s Saving My Life Right Now
- Gift Guide for the Seeker of the Sacred
- A New Way to Express Gratitude at the Thanksgiving Table
- Where I Find Inspiration
- Who Are You? Discover Your Archetypes (+ a quiz!)
- When I Discover All of My Desires Being Met (+ pictures of our new house)
- Have You Forgotten How to Fly? (an invitation to journey from Robin Williams)
- Everyday Calls to Prayer: 5 Surprising Invitations to Encounter God, Hidden in Your Daily Life
- Thoughts from the Other Side: Cultivating Spaciousness as an Everyday Practice
- Declare Your Independence: Where Could You Use More Freedom?
- When Will I Ever Arrive? (my new spiritual practice)
- So, What is a Spiritual Practice Anyway?
- How Do You Want to Feel? (my core desired feelings + discover your own)
- What it Means to Me to be a Monk in the World
- My Journey Guides and Spiritual Midwives
- How to Create a Morning Ritual (+ a glimpse into my own)
- My Love Affair with Markets: My Favorite “Third Place”
- In Which God and I Make Dinner
- Behind the Scenes of “Pilgrim Principles” (part 1)
- Why I’m Putting Success to Rest (my un-word for 2014)
- My Word for 2014
- O Pioneers! (or, when uncertainty is good in your journey)
- What I Did This Summer and Where I’m Headed Next
- Pilgrim Principles: A Pilgrim’s Rule of Life (+ FREE mini-guide)
for the pilgrim abroad
explore posts on pilgrimage
- Threshold Journeys: 8 Steps to Take During Seasons of Transition
- Growth Edges: Turn Trials on the Path into Opportunities with this Pilgrim Perspective
- 5 Essentials for Practicing Pilgrimage at Home and Abroad
- It’s Time to Go on Pilgrimage When…
- Who Are Your Journey Guides?
- 2 Signs You Can Always Trust
- 10 Types of Pilgrimage: Which is Calling You?
- The Purpose of Pilgrimage: What is Your Offering to the World?
- Things to Consider When Planning a Pilgrimage
- 5 Must-Have Qualities of Journey Companions
- Questions for the Pilgrim at the End of the Day
- 7 Reasons Why Uncertainty is Good for Your Journey
- S2:E7 | The Camino with Michael Snyder
- S2:E5 | Practicing Pilgrimage in Everyday Life with Pat Loughery
- Practicing Pilgrimage as a Way of Life
- S2:E1 | Travel as Pilgrimage with Ryan Moore
- Have Wanderlust? How to Use It for Good
- Pilgrim Podcast 09: Solo Travel + Crafting Meaningful Journeys with Amber Englund
- 5 Steps to Engage the Interior Journey
- Create a Mini-Pilgrimage Right at Home
- Which Type of Pilgrim Are You?
- 5 Creative Ways to Fund a Pilgrimage
- The 3 Elements Required for Any Pilgrimage
- Pilgrim Podcast 04: Ancestral Pilgrimage with Christine Valters Paintner
- How to Be a Pilgrim in Everyday Life
- Pilgrim Podcast 01: SoulStrolling with Kayce Hughlett
- How to Travel Like a Pilgrim
- Armchair Pilgrimage: 10 Travel Memoirs for Summer Reading
- How to Use The Pilgrim’s Compass (+ Compass Cues in the Journey Shop!)
- The Pilgrim’s Call to Welcome the Stranger
- 3 Reasons Pilgrims Should Travel in the Off Season
- The Way Is Made By Walking: How Travel Can Guide You on Your Journey
- 5 Ways to Turn Your Ordinary Trip into a Pilgrimage (+ a FREE pocket guide for your next journey)
- How Your Journey is the Pilgrim’s Journey
- Journey Book Club Discussion: “The Soul of a Pilgrim” (+ a special guest!)
- The Mystical Backpacker (an interview + giveaway!)
- I don’t Feel Prepared, and That’s Okay (Walking the Camino: Take 2)
- Have You Forgotten How to Fly? (an invitation to journey from Robin Williams)
- Photo Album: Pilgrimage to the Sacred Edge of Ireland
- O Pioneers! (or, when uncertainty is good in your journey)
- Finding Pilgrimage All Around Us (+ a FREE ebook)
- Start Journeying on the Path of the Pilgrim
- Pilgrimage 101: The History of Pilgrimage
- An Introduction: My Journey So Far
explore posts on intentional travel
- Threshold Journeys: 8 Steps to Take During Seasons of Transition
- 5 Essentials for Practicing Pilgrimage at Home and Abroad
- 6 Tools for Staying Present to the Journey at Hand
- Things to Consider When Planning a Pilgrimage
- 5 Must-Have Qualities of Journey Companions
- Questions for the Pilgrim at the End of the Day
- 5 Activities to Make Your Next Trip a Spiritual Journey
- What’s Your Touchstone? (+ new touchstones in the Journey Shop!)
- Are You a Traveler or Tourist? 5 Things That Make Travelers Different
- Packing Essentials for the Intentional Traveler
- 3 Reasons Pilgrims Should Travel in the Off Season
- Travel Tip: Make a Travel Shadow Box with Mementos from Your Recent Adventure
- Travel Tip: Create Your Own Guide for Your Next Journey
- Create Your Own Travel Altar
- My Favorite Travel Tools
- Gift Guide for the Intentional Traveler
- Travel Tip: Collect Found Objects
- Dress for the Trip You Want to Have: My Travel Wardrobe
- Travel Tip: Everyday Souvenirs
- Travel Tip: A Travel Yoga + Prayer Practice
- Travel Tip: What to Pack for a Retreat
- Travel Tip: Create Your Own Personal Liturgy
- Travel Tip: DIY Memento Pouch