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READINGS AND PRAYERS

New materials posted in 2022 are in red!

Articles

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Prayers/ Reflections/poems

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Sacred Texts

  • Genesis chapter 1 and 2

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Blogs & Websites

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Podcasts & Videos 

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Books

  • Conjectures of a Wayward Pilgrim by our own Patrick Rawson

  • Conjectures of a Border Pilgrim:  Reflections on Borders, Boundaries and Belonging by Patrick Rawson

  • Day Hiking Oregon Coast by Bonnie Henderso

  • Off the Road by Jack Hitt

  • The Way My Way

  • On Trails:  An Exploration  by Robert Moor

  • Gimme Refuge; The education of a Caretaker by Matt Love

  • Crossing the Unknown Sea, by David Whyte

  • Camino Easy   B.G. Preston

  • The Great Chain of Life by Joseph Wood Krutch

  • Slow Camino by Terence Callery

  • Glimpses of a Pilgrim Life

  • The World is full of Walls that don't work 

  • It is solved by Walking

  • Readings for Pilgrims-Merton letter to Carson

  • Decalogue of Assisi for Peace

  • El Camino: Walking to Santiago de Compostela by Lee Hoinacki

  • I’m Off Then: Losing and finding myself on the Camino de Santiago by Hape Kerkeling

  • Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho

  • To the Field of Stars: a Pilgrim’s Journey to Santiago de Compostela by Kevin Codd

  • Born to Walk by Dan Rubinstein

  • The Love song of Queenie Hennesey

  • A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit

  • The Solace of Fierce Landscapes by Belden C Lane

  • Rebecca Solnit: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

  • Diana Webb: Medieval European Pilgrimage

  • Barbara Brown Taylor: An Altar in the World

  • Stefano Mancuso and Alessandra Viola: Brilliant Green

  • Ruben L.F. Habito: Zen and the Spiritual Exercises

  • J.J. Rousseau: Reveries of the Solitary Walker

  • John Brierley: A Pilgrim’s Guide to the Camino de Santiago

  • Nancy Louis Frey: Pilgrim Stories: On and Off the Road to Santiago, Journeys Along an Ancient Way in Modern Spain

  • Henry David Thoreau: Walking

  • Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics

  • Timothy M. O’Sullivan: Walking in Roman Culture

  • Dennis Hamm, “Praying Backwards Through Your Day”

  • Ron Hanson, “The Pilgrim: St. Igantius of Loyola”

  • David Whyte, “Pilgrim”

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Ecology/Environment

  • Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben

  • For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future by Herman E. Daly and John B. Cobb Jr.’s

  • The Great Work by Thomas Berry

  • Loving Nature, Ecological Integrity and Christian Responsibility by James Nash

  • Nature and the Human Soul by Bill Plotkin

  • Sacred Acts: How churches are working to protect Earth climate by Mallory McDuff

  • The Universe Story by Thomas Berry

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Fiction

  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

  • Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

  • The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

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Native American

  • Shadow Tribe: the Making of Columbia River Indian Identity by Andrew Fischer

  • Winterkill by Craig Lesley (description of Celilo Falls)

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Spirituality

  • Falling Upward by Richard Rohr

  • Franciscan Ecospirituality by Pamela Wood

  • In Search of Sacred Places: Looking for Wisdom on Celtic Holy Islands by Daniel Taylor

  • Pilgrimage Through Loss; Pathways to Strength and renewal after the death of a child. by Linda Lawrence Hunt

  • Resisting Structural Evil:  Love as ecological-economic vocation, by Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda

  • Spiritual Ecology, the Cry of the Earth by Thich Nhat Hanh, Joanna Macy, Wendell Berry, Bill Plotkin, Richard Rohr

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Theology

  • Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Travel

  • The Art of Pilgrimage by Phil Cousineau

  • The Art of Travel by Alain De Botton

  • The Day Was Made for Walking by Noel Braun

  • Thousand-Mile Walk by John Muir

  • Walking by Henry David Thoreau

Contact us

Interested in going on the Pilgrimage and want more information about the journey?

Email us at: prawson@hrecn.net

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