Comments on: Tools for Turning Your Travels into Pilgrimages http://blog.sojo.net/2009/11/13/tools-for-turning-your-travels-into-pilgrimages/ A Blog by Jim Wallis and Friends Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:03:36 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jedidiah Abdul Muhib Palosaari http://blog.sojo.net/2009/11/13/tools-for-turning-your-travels-into-pilgrimages/comment-page-1/#comment-111034 Jedidiah Abdul Muhib Palosaari Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:48:22 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=13397#comment-111034 I found the Christian Traveler's Guide to France of immense value as well. Unfortunately there aren't many in this series- I think Italy and Germany. But using the book, for a week I traveled backward through the Christian history of France, visiting Abbey de Citeaux (founding abbey of a monastic reform movement), Abbey de Cluny (at one time the largest church in the world and founder of another reform movement), and Lyons, where we were first martyred in what is now France. Along the way, as an afterthought, I discovered the amazing "Abbey de Taize", or simply Taize. I expected a few hundred people there. Arriving 3 days after Easter, I found only 4,000 there- down from the 7,000 earlier that week- from all over the world, worshipping Jesus in a unique style, allowing for the diversity of mutually unintelligible languages and theologies.<br><br>All would have been undiscovered without this companion book. I found the Christian Traveler's Guide to France of immense value as well. Unfortunately there aren't many in this series- I think Italy and Germany. But using the book, for a week I traveled backward through the Christian history of France, visiting Abbey de Citeaux (founding abbey of a monastic reform movement), Abbey de Cluny (at one time the largest church in the world and founder of another reform movement), and Lyons, where we were first martyred in what is now France. Along the way, as an afterthought, I discovered the amazing “Abbey de Taize”, or simply Taize. I expected a few hundred people there. Arriving 3 days after Easter, I found only 4,000 there- down from the 7,000 earlier that week- from all over the world, worshipping Jesus in a unique style, allowing for the diversity of mutually unintelligible languages and theologies.

All would have been undiscovered without this companion book.

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]]> By: Jedidiah Abdul Muhib Palosaari http://blog.sojo.net/2009/11/13/tools-for-turning-your-travels-into-pilgrimages/comment-page-1/#comment-99966 Jedidiah Abdul Muhib Palosaari Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:48:22 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=13397#comment-99966 I found the Christian Traveler's Guide to France of immense value as well. Unfortunately there aren't many in this series- I think Italy and Germany. But using the book, for a week I traveled backward through the Christian history of France, visiting Abbey de Citeaux (founding abbey of a monastic reform movement), Abbey de Cluny (at one time the largest church in the world and founder of another reform movement), and Lyons, where we were first martyred in what is now France. Along the way, as an afterthought, I discovered the amazing "Abbey de Taize", or simply Taize. I expected a few hundred people there. Arriving 3 days after Easter, I found only 4,000 there- down from the 7,000 earlier that week- from all over the world, worshipping Jesus in a unique style, allowing for the diversity of mutually unintelligible languages and theologies.<br><br>All would have been undiscovered without this companion book. I found the Christian Traveler's Guide to France of immense value as well. Unfortunately there aren't many in this series- I think Italy and Germany. But using the book, for a week I traveled backward through the Christian history of France, visiting Abbey de Citeaux (founding abbey of a monastic reform movement), Abbey de Cluny (at one time the largest church in the world and founder of another reform movement), and Lyons, where we were first martyred in what is now France. Along the way, as an afterthought, I discovered the amazing “Abbey de Taize”, or simply Taize. I expected a few hundred people there. Arriving 3 days after Easter, I found only 4,000 there- down from the 7,000 earlier that week- from all over the world, worshipping Jesus in a unique style, allowing for the diversity of mutually unintelligible languages and theologies.

All would have been undiscovered without this companion book.

]]> By: Palosaari http://blog.sojo.net/2009/11/13/tools-for-turning-your-travels-into-pilgrimages/comment-page-1/#comment-99964 Palosaari Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:43:39 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=13397#comment-99964 I found the Christian Traveler's Guide to France of immense value as well. Unfortunately there aren't many in this series- I think Italy and Germany. But using the book, for a week I traveled backward through the Christian history of France, visiting Abbey de Citeaux (founding abbey of a monastic reform movement), Abbey de Cluny (at one time the largest church in the world and founder of another reform movement), and Lyons, where we were first martyred in what is now France. Along the way, as an afterthought, I discovered the amazing "Abbey de Taize", or simply Taize. I expected a few hundred people there. Arriving 3 days after Easter, I found only 4,000 there- down from the 7,000 earlier that week- from all over the world, worshipping Jesus in a unique style, allowing for the diversity of mutually unintelligible languages and theologies.<br><br>All would have been undiscovered without this companion book. I found the Christian Traveler's Guide to France of immense value as well. Unfortunately there aren't many in this series- I think Italy and Germany. But using the book, for a week I traveled backward through the Christian history of France, visiting Abbey de Citeaux (founding abbey of a monastic reform movement), Abbey de Cluny (at one time the largest church in the world and founder of another reform movement), and Lyons, where we were first martyred in what is now France. Along the way, as an afterthought, I discovered the amazing “Abbey de Taize”, or simply Taize. I expected a few hundred people there. Arriving 3 days after Easter, I found only 4,000 there- down from the 7,000 earlier that week- from all over the world, worshipping Jesus in a unique style, allowing for the diversity of mutually unintelligible languages and theologies.

All would have been undiscovered without this companion book.

]]> By: aarondtaylor http://blog.sojo.net/2009/11/13/tools-for-turning-your-travels-into-pilgrimages/comment-page-1/#comment-97536 aarondtaylor Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:19:05 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=13397#comment-97536 "Thanks to him, I try to travel as a writer looking to tell the stories of the practitioners working at the fringes of the faith instead of following the author/speaker model so prevalent in American Christianity that elevates a select group of missional males to the role of religious rock stars."<br><br> As someone who's been all over the world and met a lot of unsung heroes, I know exactly what you're talking about. “Thanks to him, I try to travel as a writer looking to tell the stories of the practitioners working at the fringes of the faith instead of following the author/speaker model so prevalent in American Christianity that elevates a select group of missional males to the role of religious rock stars.”

As someone who's been all over the world and met a lot of unsung heroes, I know exactly what you're talking about.

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]]> By: Bless_da_Lord http://blog.sojo.net/2009/11/13/tools-for-turning-your-travels-into-pilgrimages/comment-page-1/#comment-97490 Bless_da_Lord Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:27:07 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=13397#comment-97490 Great post! Thanks, Becky. Great post! Thanks, Becky.

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