The playwright, actor, and musician Justin Butcher challenged the adversities of pilgrimage itself, using his (and 100 others’) feet and blisters “to change the record of 100 years of injustice for the Palestinian people”. By composing individual sonnets for each day of travel, Cottrell pursued the “small vulnerabilities that come with not quite knowing where the next meal is coming from or where. Attentiveness to place or destination is somewhat secondary. They are not travelogues, but nuanced explorations of “what travelling did” to each man, “and the joys”, Cottrell, Bishop of Chelmsford, notes, “that it uncovered”. If you are seeking guides to Santiago de Compostela or Jerusalem - with instructions for following the routes and detail on the places through which you will pass - these books are not for you. but countless causes of sin and of contempt of God’s commandments.” The Reformer’s warning could not be proven more wrong by the peregrinations presented in Jason Butcher’s Walking to Jerusalem : Blisters, hope and other facts on the ground and Stephen Cottrell’s Striking Out : Poems and stories from the Camino.
“ALL pilgrimages should be done away with,” wrote Martin Luther.
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