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
Reformation Day in Rome
Yesterday morning we woke up extremely early, though not because we aren’t craving excessive amount of sleep—only because Daylight Savings Time ended in Europe today. For all that, we still managed to be a few minutes late to church. The … Continue reading
