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The Way Is Made by Walking: A Pilgrimage Along the Camino de Santiago
The Word Guild Canadian Christian Writing Awards finalist
Pilgrimage is a spiritual discipline not many consider. Aren't the destinations far? Don't they involve a lot of time and walking? Just a few years ago, Arthur Paul Boers wasn't thinking about pilgrimage either. But he began to sense a deep call from God to walk the five-hundred-mile pilgrimage route known as Camino de Santiago, ending in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, at a cathedral that is said to hold the relics of the apostle James.
In these pages he opens to us his incredible story of renewed spirituality springing from an old, old path walked by millions before him. It's a story of learning to pray in new ways, embracing simplicity, forming community, living each day centered and focused, depending on God to provide. Joined by hundreds of others from all over the world, Boers points the way to deeper intimacy with God—a way made by walking in faith.
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The Way Is Made by Walking: A Pilgrimage Along the Camino de Santiago
The Word Guild Canadian Christian Writing Awards finalist
Pilgrimage is a spiritual discipline not many consider. Aren't the destinations far? Don't they involve a lot of time and walking? Just a few years ago, Arthur Paul Boers wasn't thinking about pilgrimage either. But he began to sense a deep call from God to walk the five-hundred-mile pilgrimage route known as Camino de Santiago, ending in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, at a cathedral that is said to hold the relics of the apostle James.
In these pages he opens to us his incredible story of renewed spirituality springing from an old, old path walked by millions before him. It's a story of learning to pray in new ways, embracing simplicity, forming community, living each day centered and focused, depending on God to provide. Joined by hundreds of others from all over the world, Boers points the way to deeper intimacy with God—a way made by walking in faith.
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The Way Is Made by Walking: A Pilgrimage Along the Camino de Santiago
The Word Guild Canadian Christian Writing Awards finalist
Pilgrimage is a spiritual discipline not many consider. Aren't the destinations far? Don't they involve a lot of time and walking? Just a few years ago, Arthur Paul Boers wasn't thinking about pilgrimage either. But he began to sense a deep call from God to walk the five-hundred-mile pilgrimage route known as Camino de Santiago, ending in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, at a cathedral that is said to hold the relics of the apostle James.
In these pages he opens to us his incredible story of renewed spirituality springing from an old, old path walked by millions before him. It's a story of learning to pray in new ways, embracing simplicity, forming community, living each day centered and focused, depending on God to provide. Joined by hundreds of others from all over the world, Boers points the way to deeper intimacy with God—a way made by walking in faith.
Arthur Boers is an Anglican priest and author of award-winning books, including Shattered: A Son Picks Up the Pieces of His Father's Rage and Living into Focus: Choosing What Matters in an Age of Distractions. He holds a DMin from Northern Baptist Theological Seminary and an MFA from Seattle Pacific University.
Eugene H. Peterson (1932–2018) was a pastor, scholar, author, and poet. He wrote more than thirty books, including his widely acclaimed paraphrase of the Bible, The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language, his memoir, The Pastor, and the bestselling spiritual formation classic A Long Obedience in the Same Direction. Peterson was founding pastor of Christ Our King Presbyterian Church in Bel Air, Maryland, where he served for twenty-nine years before retiring in 1991. With degrees from Seattle Pacific, New York Theological Seminary, and Johns Hopkins University, he served as professor of spiritual theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, until retiring in Lakeside, Montana, in 2006.
Foreword by Eugene Peterson Acknowledgments Map of Camino
Introduction
1. I want to Be in That Number: Drawn to Pilgrimage 2. Seeking God's Homeland: Christian Roots of Pilgrimage 3. Lord, Teach Us to Be Prayerful: Spirituality Lessons 4. Your Pack's Too Big: Simplify, Simplify, Simplify 5. The Road That Leads to Life: Challenges of Faithful Pilgrimage 6. The Journey Is Long: Camino Confessions
Photograph Section
7. Well That's the Camino: Hospitality and Solidarity 8. No "Ustedes" Por Favor: The Rules Are Different Here 9. Secular Seekers: The Disconnect of Pilgrims and Church 10. Focal Ways of Life: Putting Pilgrimage into Practice 11. Walking in Faith: Walking as Spiritual Practice 12. Here I Walk, I Can Do No Other: Keeping Faith With Our Feet
Conclusion
Appendix 1. Recovering and Reclaiming Christian Pilgrimage Appendix 2. Planning a Christian Pilgrimage Appendix 3. Pilgrimage Destinations Appendix 4. Camino Pilgrimage Resources Notes
"Everything seems up for grabs, and nothing seems fulfilling any longer. But in this unassuming and engaging chronicle Arthur Boers shows that gravity and grace can be recovered step by step. And for those of us who can't go on a pilgrimage, there are wonderful lessons to be learned from one who did." — Albert Borgmann, author of Real American Ethics
From the foreword by Eugene H. Peterson
"[Arthur] Boers doesn't so much tell us about pilgrimage as invite us, in his lively and colorful prose, to join him. . . . This is a book to savor and read and then reread as we learn to live pilgrimage so that we will never again reduce walking to just getting across the street."
Richard R. Gaillardetz
"In a postmodern world in which time and space seem compressed and lives of leisure are driven by frenetic consumption, we should not be surprised that many have turned to the medieval practice of pilgrimage as a vital spiritual antidote. Arthur Boers's reflections from his pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago stand out for their honesty and gentle wisdom. As a Mennonite participating in a medieval Catholic spiritual discipline, Boers fills The Way Is Made by Walking with startling insights and fresh perspectives into the spiritual journey that all must make." — Richard R. Gaillardetz, Murray/Bacik Professor of Catholic Studies, University of Toledo and author of By What Authority
Marva Dawn
"I was already recommending this book before I finished reading it, for Arthur Paul Boers is an outstanding (yet humble) mentor, guiding our steps into the Way and ways of Jesus. He recounts his pilgrimage warmheartedly and at a trekker's pace so that we are gently invited to enter into it and engage in its lessons. If you walk with him on the ancient path he treads, you will find yourself inspired, questioned, disturbed and transformed." — Marva Dawn, author of The Sense of the Call and Keeping the Sabbath Wholly
Keith J. Egan
"Pack your fantasy knapsack; walk with Arthur Boers on the adventure of a lifetime, the five-hundred-mile pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. What a lively, sensitive, down-to-earth and deeply spiritual guide Boers is! His tales as a pilgrim will so captivate your imagination that you could find yourself in real time, walking stick in hand, making your way along that sacred path made holy by the faith of countless pilgrims." — Keith J. Egan, Saint Mary's College/Notre Dame University
