During my time as an exchange student at Oxford University, I decided to take a temporary step away from my reformed denomination and attend an Anglican church. I tried several out, had some brief relapses with a Russian Orthodox congregation and a Catholic Latin mass (I’m a sucker for the foreign languages), and eventually discovered [...]
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The following is an excerpt from a paper (The Politics of Pilgrimage) that I’ll be presenting at Wheaton this Saturday. Most of the paper is literary criticism, but this one section sets the stage for the theme I tease out of the literature I engage—pilgrimage as an interpretive category for the Christian life.
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