India!

I will soon start adding images and stories from my pilgrimage time in India!  Stay tuned!

Buen Camino!

Brett

Being God's Pilgrim People! Ecclesio.com and Pilgrimage

For the past week I've been a guest blogger on Ecclesio.com.  I've written about being a pilgrim people right where we live.

Here are the blogs:

http://www.ecclesio.com/2015/04/being-gods-pilgrim-people-whats-a-pilgrimage-by-brett-webb-mitchell/

http://www.ecclesio.com/2015/04/being-gods-pilgrim-people-companions-and-community-on-pilgrimage-brett-webb-mitchell/

http://www.ecclesio.com/2015/04/being-gods-pilgrim-people-saints-and-memory-on-pilgrimage-brett-webb-mitchell/

http://www.ecclesio.com/2015/04/being-gods-pilgrim-people-hospitality-on-pilgrimage-brett-webb-mitchell/

http://www.ecclesio.com/2015/04/being-gods-pilgrim-people-the-contemplative-life-of-christian-pilgrimage-brett-webb-mitchell/

Enjoy!

Buen Camino!

B

Camino Madrid!

Camino Madrid Pilgrimage! Have you wanted to walk the Camino de Santiago de Compostela? Join us this May 21-31, 2015 to walk from Valladolid to Moratinos, Spain. The "Madrid Camino" is one of the many pathways that lead people to Santiago de Compostela. This is a 65 mile pilgrimage that will take us four nights and five days. Rough costs at this point: airfare is between $1,000 to $1,200 to Madrid (each person is responsible for getting her or his ticket), and food and lodging will be roughly $600-700. Need to know if you're committed by March 31, 2015 with $50 deposit made out to the School of the Pilgrim, www.schoolofthepilgrim.com.

Buen Camino!

B

Pilgrimage across the nation, and Pilgrimage at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church

The pilgrimage of racing across the nation from Tue., Nov. 25, leaving Chapel Hill for Asheville, then Asheville to Jefferson City, TN, then off to Blue Springs, MO, to Rawlins, WY to Portland, OR...Phew!  Stories and pics coming!

Now a pilgrimage has begun at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Portland, OR.  Stories coming soon!

Step by step, day by day, and we're off!

Buen camino!

B

Moving!

All right, pilgrims!  I'm moving.  It is time to move to Portland, Oregon!  I'm the new interim head of staff at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Portland, OR!  Come and visit.

Dean will stay here and tend to the home we own.  Adrianne and her husband, Scott, are moving to Weaverville, and Parker is finishing up at UNC-W.

The pilgrimage continues anon!

Buen camino!

Brett

Practicing Pilgrimage Prayers

That's me in the foreground.

I'm working VERY hard on my next book, Practicing Pilgrimage.

I'll post some of the chapters on this site!

Expect to be amazed!

Buen Camino!

Brett

Walking is falling forward.

In the series, "To Walk the World" in NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC (Dec. 2013), Paul Salopek gives us a there is a wonderful definition or description of walking:

Walking is falling forward.

Each step we take is an arrested plunge, a collapse averted, a disaster braked.  in this way, to walk becomes an act of faith.  We perform it daily: a two-beat miracle--an iambic teetering, a holding on and letting go

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How cool is this!

Buen Camino!

B