The Birthday Pilgrim

Observations from Sixteen Weeks in the Spiritual Wilderness

Admittedly, this space slowed way down over the last sixteen weeks, but not for the usual “life got busy” reasons. What happened was stranger and better: I went on an academic pilgrimage so absorbing that I surrendered to it. The course, offered through Harvard Extension School, was called The Spiritual Lives of the Nonreligious, and its capstone assign…