About Pilgrimage Stories From Up and Down the Staircase
Matthew Anderson teaches in the Dept of Theological Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. During the pandemic, he gets his exercise not from long-distance walks, but in going up and down his stairs. While he does, he remembers past pilgrimages.
“An unwritten contract so ancient it predates the law”: Come with me to Nuuksio park in Finland to learn how jokamiehenoikeus—"everyperson’s right—connects Finns to forests, fauna, and foraging, whether or not they own land.
1 May 2021
A Princess Bride Pilgrimage
Inconceivable! Pilgrimaging near Castleton and Higger Tor, in England's Peaks District, in search of scenes from the cult-classic "The Princess Bride."
11 Dec 2020
The NWMP Traders Road Part Two
Welcome back for more stories - and audio - from our trek on the North-West Mounted Police Patrol Trail on Treaty Four territory. We're on the path of Everett Baker, talking about everything from the Desert Mothers to walking with one's Ancestors!
26 Nov 2020
The North-West Mounted Police Patrol Trail Pilgrimage
Whether you know it as the North-West Mounted Police Patrol Trail, the Métis Traders' Road, or the Wood Mountain to Cypress Hills Trek, it's a pilgrimage back in history and across Treaty Four territory.
22 Oct 2020
Back on the Camino de Santiago
Camino pilgrims inevitably feel the itch to return to the high peaks of the Pyrenees and the windswept trails of northern Spain. I went back too - this time with mic and camera.
8 Oct 2020
The Camino de Santiago
It all started when I was called into the office of a powerhouse academic who was a former nun. "You're going on the Camino and taking students with you," she told me. "Why me?" I asked. Later, in Spain, I sometimes asked myself the same question.
10 Sept 2020
Walking the Whithorn Way in South-West Scotland
The saint behind the Whithorn Way is lost in the shadows of history. As we walked toward Ninian's Candida Casa, the "House at the Edge of the Earth," we caught glimpses of the saint in the moors and mists of Galloway.
3 Sept 2020
From Old Montreal to Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Territory
On our foot-path between Old Montreal and Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Territory, we and our students discovered much about the Kanien'ke:ha, the inner city, and ourselves.
27 Aug 2020
A Local Icelandic Pilgrimage: Bær to Skálholt
Did my walk with locals along a pilgrimage in Iceland in 2016 turn out to be a "pilgrimage fail"? I check back with one of my Icelandic fellow walkers to find out.
20 Aug 2020
Walking the St Olav Way in Norway Part 2
I walked from Dovre to Trondheim with five other Canadians in 2013. On the path, I spoke with Dr Allen Jorgenson about Saint Olav, the trail, and being Scandi-Canadian.
13 Aug 2020
Arriving on Holy Island
After walking barefoot across the ocean floor to Holy Island, I met Kate Tristram, who set me straight on how Cuthbert would have arrived in the seventh century!
5 Aug 2020
Meeting St Clare on St Cuthbert's Way
I didn't know Clare when I met her on the St Cuthbert Way between Melrose Scotland and Holy Island. But she knew she was waiting for me.
27 Jul 2020
Walking the St. Olav Way in Norway
There's no Saint Olav anymore at the end of the long walk to Trondheim, but given how stunningly gorgeous the plateaus, mountains, and valleys are, did our group of Canadian walkers care?
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