Julian Kwasniewski explores the spiritual and physical experience of going on adventure pilgrimages.
In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the fifth of CS Lewis’ Narnia series, the mysterious Aslan is famously referred to as “not a tame Lion”. Aslan tells the Pevensie children at the end of the book that the point of their relationship with him in Narnia is so that they can know him better in their own world. Today, chartered buses and tour-guides often tame the experience of European pilgrimages for Catholics. Yet, like the Narnian voyage, which begins unexpectedly and involves both dangerous adventure and pleasant comradery, this need not be the case.
