Camino de Santiago
What the Camino shows us about travel and mortality
By Jana Riess — December 4, 2023
(RNS) — Travel teaches us how fragile life is and what a holy gift every day can be. (Also, it shows us we can be fear-based idiots.)
People (and dogs) we meet on the Camino
By Jana Riess — July 6, 2023
(RNS) — The Camino was filled with spiritual moments, mostly tied up in human stories.
‘The Way,’ Emilio Estevez’s film about the Camino, returns to theaters
By Emily McFarlan Miller — May 15, 2023
(RNS) — The movie returns to theaters for one night Tuesday (May 16) and features a conversation between Emilio Estevez, Martin Sheen and travel guru Rick Steves.
In ‘Stealing My Religion,’ Liz Bucar takes on murky forms of appropriation
By Kathryn Post — November 18, 2022
(RNS) — Bucar invites readers to 'interrogate the stance that we are entitled to take religious practices from others for our own needs.'
Camino pilgrims help rural Spain’s emptying villages survive
By Giovanna Dell'orto — June 21, 2022
TERRADILLOS DE LOS TEMPLARIOS, Spain (AP) — Terradillos de los Templarios, and dozens of villages like it, were built to host medieval pilgrims. Today’s Camino travelers are saving them from disappearing.
Pilgrims return to Spain’s ‘El Camino’ paths after pandemic
By Iain Sullivan and Joseph Wilson — June 5, 2021
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain (AP) — Soul-searchers hoping to heal wounds left by the coronavirus are once again strapping on backpacks and following trails marked with a seashell emblem to the shrine in the city of Santiago de Compostela.
How to make a pilgrimage into 2021
By Wes Granberg-Michaelson — December 31, 2020
(RNS) — We walk forward into unknown terrain, not certain of what we will encounter, but learning to trust that hospitable grace will sustain us.
Digital pilgrimages allow the faithful to travel the world from their couches
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 29, 2020
(RNS) — From hashtagged photos posted on Instagram to immersive apps, digital pilgrimages are making spiritual journeys possible for the faithful, even as they stay home.
Episcopalian pilgrims bring Spain’s Camino de Santiago to the Appalachian Trail
By Emily McFarlan Miller — June 28, 2019
ON THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL, Pa. (RNS) — Inspired by Spain's popular pilgrimage, hikers from the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania are making their own "Appalachian Camino" this week on the piece of the Appalachian Trail winding through the diocese.
‘I’ll Push You’: Friends, one in a wheelchair, document their Spanish pilgrimage
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 1, 2017
(RNS) — When Justin Skeesuck felt called to travel the 500-mile Camino de Santiago, a popular Christian pilgrimage through mountains, forests and fields in northern Spain, his lifelong friend Patrick Gray's response was immediate: 'I'll push you.' That's because Skeesuck uses a wheelchair.
Who were those guys at the Last Supper? A Q&A with Tom Bissell
By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 25, 2016
(RNS) Bissell traveled around the world, from Jerusalem to Kyrgyzstan, to find the apostles' tombs.
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