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Pilgrimage is a centrally important concept in religions. Religions have sacred places where people travel to meet with God, and at the same time encounter their deepest selves. Such places can be churches, temples, mosques or other buildings.
But most religions also have particular geographical places that for them are, spiritually, the center of the word: Jews and Christians have Jerusalem; Muslims have Mecca; Hindus, Varanasi; and so on. And there are other places that are filled with holy, luminous and numinous power. To speak only of Christianity, there are: Rome; Constantinople (now Istanbul); Alexandria; Canterbury; and many more locations. The Christian theologian Richard Niebuhr wrote that "Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys." The pilgrim fathers and mothers left behind persecution in Europe to try to worship God freely in a new world.
A tourist enjoys the sights, but a pilgrim is transformed by sites. The Wackerlin Center for Faith and Action offers travel opportunities for pilgrims who, having seen what they see, return home, like the wise men returning from their visit to the infant Jesus, another way. Not, of course, another geographical way, but having their ways of thinking, believing and acting reinforced, renewed yet changed by their experiences.
Take a look at the links we direct you to from here to see how people have responded to past pilgrimages the WCFA has offered. And return often to find links to future travel opportunities that we shall, from time to time, arrange.
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