
The Way Not Taken
By Robert Royal This is the first summer in quite a while that circumstances have prevented me from taking a walking pilgrimage, usually something like the Camino de Compostela (here) or the Via Francigena (which nearly killed me a few years ago between the heat and distance (here). My favorite, however, is still St. Cuthbert's Way, which runs from Melrose in Scotland over the mountains on the border with England and down to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne (here). I'm deeply convinced that a walking pilgrimage – in its combination of the spiritual and the physical on God's green earth– is of…
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