Passing Through Doubt
Believe, doubt, believe better.
7 min readMar 4, 2024
In his account of his pilgrimage along the Via Francigena between Canterbury and Rome, the author and journalist Timothy Egan recounts a conversation he had with his son near the midway point of his journey in Switzerland (2019). His son had recently joined him there and was puzzled by his father’s spiritual quest, to say nothing of the means he was employing to explore…