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Hello - I'm Eirene -backstreet pilgrim. Thank you for stopping by. I'm changing my image of God, one step at a time. Walk with me.
I hope you can count as prayer that which you have already been doing. Because there is just more holiness around us than we have been led to believe.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
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The doubting novice
The week before I became a novice, I felt empty. I felt low, ungracious, raw and angry. The week when I should have been full of life and...
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Oct 14, 20213 min read
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A Simple Life
I sometimes feel, living in our little outcrop of rock in the middle of the North Sea that other countries have so much more nature than...
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Sep 23, 20214 min read
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My three most popular posts!
I can't believe it, but backstreetpilgrim has been online now for just over a year now, and I have published fifty blogposts. Fifty! When...
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Sep 16, 20211 min read
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Silly Monkey
We have a prayer we say every day in the Third Order which says... ‘Grant, we pray, that being knit together in community and prayer we...
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Aug 10, 20213 min read
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Here!
When I was growing up in my little wooden hut of a church with its bare walls, its serried ranks of hard chairs and its purple and white...
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Aug 5, 20213 min read
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God in the lostness
One of the effects for me of our Collective Great Isolation is that I’ve lost my well-honed sense of time. Before Covid, if I lost the...
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Jul 1, 20214 min read
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Thank you God, for Spotify
I’ve just discovered Spotify. In our age of galloping technology is this is akin to marvelling that Columbus has just landed on the East...
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Jun 10, 20213 min read
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God in the tiredness
Sometimes you just feel a whole bunch of feelings which you are convinced you shouldn’t be feeling, and in doing so compound those...
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Jun 3, 20213 min read
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Deconstructing with Queen
One of the things about growing up in an evangelical fundamentalist church is that you are encased in a tight straitjacket of rules and...
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Apr 29, 20213 min read
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Cross Questions
You know how in the introduction to my website I say I am a backstreet pilgrim and I’m changing my image of God one step at a time? (No?...
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Apr 22, 20214 min read
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This Lent is so lenty
Every Lent has been lenty for me without even really trying. My first husband, Pete, a lovely, prayerful, creative and committed young...
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Mar 4, 20213 min read
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Life is one long Lent!
Sometimes, I think I try too hard. I’m so gripped by what I think I’m supposed to be doing, that I completely ignore the neon lights...
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Feb 25, 20213 min read
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Lent. What's it all about?
I’m not comfortable with Lent. But then I don’t think I’m supposed to be. If you were inventing a new religion, you would never say,...
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Feb 18, 20213 min read
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Learning to dance
For much of my life I have regarded myself as some sort of spiritual cripple. You know, the one who sits in the corner with her crutches,...
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Feb 11, 20214 min read
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All are welcome
Let me tell you a story. When my son was thirteen, he developed a keen interest in cathedrals, especially Notre Dame in France. I was a...
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Feb 4, 20213 min read
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Why be a Franciscan?
I was only vaguely aware of St Francis for many years. He was a sort of medieval Dr Doolittle who went about talking to animals and...
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Jan 28, 20212 min read
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On the road
I love the notion of being on a spiritual journey. I love the idea that I have never ‘arrived’ but am constantly hiking on a sort of...
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Jan 21, 20214 min read
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Five simple pleasures I'm looking forward to in 2021
1. Seeing my children and grandchildren And I mean properly – not through a glass darkly or standing shivering in sub zero temperatures...
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Jan 14, 20214 min read
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Six good things to come out of a bad bad year
I’m just looking at my diary entries for January 2020 and it reads like something from a fantasy novel. Choir practice. Hair appointment....
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Jan 7, 20214 min read
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In the bleak midwinter
I’m missing my writer’s ears and eyes in this pandemic. I’m missing those overheard snatches of conversation in the swimming pool (I told...
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Dec 17, 20202 min read
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