A Pilgrimage to Eternity, (Paperback)

from nbmars

Timothy Egan is an award winning op-ed writer for “The New York Times.” He was raised a Catholic, but like many others born into the faith, he had serious doubts about the religion once he reached adulthood. He stopped attending church, married a Jewish woman, and raised a family with no religiou...

from labdaddy4

As always, Egan has written an excellent book. This one is introspective and questioning. Much of the book is filled with history and personal observations on the “state of faith” in our modern society. The author obviously has many doubts and questions about his own faith and the mis-steps that ...

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After his mother's death, Timothy Egan decided to pay tribute to his Catholic upbringing by taking a pilgrimage from Canterbury to Rome. The three-month journey visited many "holy sites" where monastics, popes, and saints trod. I enjoyed reading about the events that took place at the stops along...

from streamsong

“What did Steve Jobs say? Don't be trapped by dogma, which he defined as “living with the results of other people's thinking.” p 114 Although well known author Timothy Egan had grown up in the Catholic church, as he matured, he lost his faith. This was partly due to the questioning that most youn...

from spounds

My kind of book. The writer is a lapsed Catholic who decided to take a pilgrimage along the Via Francigena, from Canterbury in England to Rome. It's part travelogue as he describes cities and countryside, part history book as he describes the saints and cathedrals along, and part memoir as he tel...