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Honoring the Person AND the Place

12 Wednesday Apr 2023

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Was listening recently to my favorite news source about a group of Christians visiting the Holy Land. The segment was timed to coincide with Maundy Thursday on the Western Calendar, so it featured how a person’s faith can be strengthened by visiting the places where holy people dwelled and prayed to God. In other words, revival can be found by practicing the ancient art of pilgrimage, because as the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins proclaims, “The world is charged with the grandeur of God”.

It was music to my ears! Modern Christians going to holy and sacred spaces and being deepened in their faith. That is until I heard one tour guide from the piece proclaim a philosophical dialectic you will never on a Boston Pilgrim Tour: “…We need to remind ourselves that we worship the Person, not the place.” Why this false dichotomy between person and place as if getting the latter right did not ultimately matter? He also adds with a slight sneer that the places they visit are “so-called traditional” while giving real credence to the authority of archeology.

Seems like these sneers ultimately destroy the whole reason to go on pilgrimage. Why go to the actual, historical place when you can have a pilgrimage experience in some place like Disneyland (Didn’t Orlando have a place called “The Holy Land Experience“)? Why do we Christians even NEED theme parks when we have the real thing?

Book a tour with Boston Pilgrim today where we visit the actual places along with honoring actual people.

Remembering on Memorial Day

26 Monday May 2014

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Meeting a small group downtown today for our flagship tour, the Faith-based Freedom Trail. This is giving a shout out to all of America’s veterans and men and women currently in uniform on this Memorial Day.

I have very fond memories of Memorial Day parades in my small hometown in the Midwest. Now that I live in the city where it all began, I am deeply humbled and grateful for the sacrifice of all our founding fathers and those who continue to sacrifice to ensure our liberties.

America’s freedom and independence from one of the greatest and most intimidating empires in the world is a powerful and inspiring story to tell. And we here at Boston Pilgrim Tours remain committed to telling the often overlooked role that faith has played in that story.

Tea Time in Boston

16 Monday Dec 2013

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Boston Tea Party, Eliot Bible

Today marks the 240th anniversary of what has come to be known as the Boston Tea Party, December 16, 1773. We had the good fortune of taking our home school to the new living history museum that has been built in Boston Harbor to commemorate the historic event (free to all on this historic day). The old museum was closed in 2001 and later suffered a fire in 2007. But the new living history museum that has been built in its place is better than ever before. Continue reading →

Happy Guns

04 Thursday Jul 2013

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American Indpendance Day

100_0391Went for the first time this morning with my two oldest to the fourth of July ceremony and parade downtown Boston. I cannot believe this is the first time I have ever done this. Usually, we are abroad at this time in Russia (last year, we actually arrived in Russia on this great American holiday).

Hearing the many gun salutes sounding today in honor of American independence, I was reminded of the difference between distressing explosions and happy ones. These, of course, were planned in honor of the occasion. Very much unlike the distressing and harmful explosions of the Boston Marathon bombing.

We are grateful to Almighty God for every day of his protection over our fair city and pray this day that happy guns may continue to sound not just on these shores, but everywhere in the world that benefits from America’s stand for all freedoms, both political and religious.

Here is the reading of Declaration of Independence from the Old States House in Boston this morning:

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