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practicing pilgrimage at home and abroad

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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 destinations

  • S2:E7 | The Camino with Michael Snyder
  • Divine Destination: Bali
  • Join me for an Iona Pilgrimage next spring!
  • Wander: The Desert


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

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