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Cut Off at the Pass

To forge my edit­ing and nar­ra­tive skills, I put together the fol­low­ing video of our cross­ing the Alps. Our friend Hans is busy mak­ing a more pro­fes­sional short film of our trip to be unveiled at this summer’s Inter­na­tional Luther Con­gress. But to fill the gap, and get a taste of what you have in store, I offer this as a fore­taste. Enjoy and share with your friends. Con­tinue read­ing

Our Story in Backpacking Light

Andrew tells the his­tory of our pil­grim­age from the lightweight-backpacking point of view on the web­site of one of our spon­sors, Back­pack­ing Light. You need an account to read the whole thing, but you can at least be tan­ta­lized by … Con­tinue read­ing

Remembering the Road

As the win­ter draws to a close and the spring flow­ers efface the gray, gray land­scape, our imag­i­na­tions are turn­ing back to our 70 days on the road. It’s hard to stay inside and the walls seem to be squeez­ing … Con­tinue read­ing

And Now, At Last, Finally, For Real… It’s Over

Yes­ter­day was our very last engage­ment related to the pil­grim­age! Andrew spoke at the Uni­ver­sity of Hei­del­berg as part of a lec­ture series on “Sus­tain­able Mobil­ity in the 21st Cen­tury.” Most of the lec­tures were highly tech­ni­cal on mechan­i­cal means … Con­tinue read­ing

Here I Walk 2011 Calendar!

Quite a num­ber of peo­ple wrote and asked us about mak­ing a cal­en­dar with pho­tos from our jour­ney… and we are noth­ing if not oblig­ing to our fans! This will be only for 2011–commemorating Luther’s actual arrival in Rome and … Con­tinue read­ing

A Thanksgiving Sermon: Nehemiah 8 and Luke 24

(I preached this ser­mon at Lenoir-Rhyne last Wednes­day dur­ing the weekly chapel ser­vice. It was a Thanksgiving-themed ser­vice, so it seemed fit­ting to post it today. Happy feast­ing to every­one!) Grace to you and peace from God our Father and … Con­tinue read­ing

On the Air with Rick Steves

We enjoyed a peace­ful week­end of the coun­try life in Vir­ginia. While out for a run I scared a blue heron out of a patch of lush water­cress grow­ing in stream, and the trees were all a-twitter with blue jays … Con­tinue read­ing

One Last Hurrah at Roanoke College

Our “post-pilgrimage” has just about wound down now. On Thurs­day night we were the guest speak­ers at a Faith and Rea­son lec­ture and din­ner at Roanoke’s Cen­ter for Reli­gion and Soci­ety. We had a good crowd and a very curi­ous … Con­tinue read­ing

Theologians-in-Residence at Lenoir-Rhyne

Last Sun­day we arrived in North Car­olina. Andrew Weis­ner, the cam­pus pas­tor, and a cou­ple of stu­dents picked us up. It was a very warm home­com­ing for me—Lenoir-Rhyne is my alma mater—and Pr. Weis­ner started his min­istry there the same … Con­tinue read­ing

Thursday at Roanoke

We’re just wrap­ping up our stay at Lenoir-Rhyne (more on that soon to come!) but just wanted to let you know, if you’re in the area, that we’ll be speak­ing at Roanoke Col­lege in Salem, Vir­ginia, on Thurs­day the 18th … Con­tinue read­ing

Two Martins’ Days at Augsburg College

It has been a whirl­wind here and, strangely enough, harder to keep up with the blog than when we were walk­ing all day… I sup­pose because our daily tasks have more vari­ety than the pil­grim­age rhythm of walk, eat, write, … Con­tinue read­ing

Back in the U.S. of A.

We have been state­side since Sun­day night and are still in the process of bat­tling the worst jet lag either of us can ever remem­ber hav­ing, wak­ing up at 3 a.m. still exhausted but unable to fall back asleep. I … Con­tinue read­ing

Here I Walk in the news again…

We’re delighted that a few kindly souls here and there have taken notice of us in other venues! If you’d like to take a look: “Ecu­menists Cross the Tiber,” by Matthew Milliner, on the First Things web­site. “Here I Walk: A … Con­tinue read­ing

A Couple of Days in Lutherland

Mon­day morn­ing we offi­cially re-entered the mod­ern world of travel by board­ing a plane. A dis­tance that had taken us 70 days to walk we reached in an hour and forty min­utes by plane. That as much as any­thing shows … Con­tinue read­ing

A Statistical Review of Here I Walk

Now that it’s all over, we thought a num­bers ret­ro­spec­tive might be a fun way to look at our pil­grim­age. All date-relevant sta­tis­tics are through Octo­ber 31. Total dis­tance trav­eled from Erfurt to Rome: 1746.6 km (1085.5 mi) Dis­tance trav­eled by … Con­tinue read­ing

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