Christendom has often achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys.

Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

Pilgrims are persons in motion passing through territories not their own, seeking something we might call completion, or perhaps the word clarity will do as well, a goal to which only the spirit's compass points the way.

A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.

It is imperative that the past of the pilgrims' progress be intentionally carried forward into the present as we work into our future. Without it we cannot know who we are, why we are here, or where we can go. Without a common past to live out of we become aimless and wandering individuals instead of a pilgrim people.