On the recommendation of a friend, I’ve been reading Timothy Egan’s “A Pilgrimage to Eternity.” It’s not my usual fare, but ...

Timothy Egan writes about revisiting the Christianity he grew up with while walking the 1,000-mile Via Francigena, a medieval pilgrimage route that stretches from England’s Canterbury to Rome. “‘A ...

ST. NAZIANZ - These sandals are made for walking, and that’s exactly what Father Moses did, trekking more than 1,300 miles from Canterbury, England, to Rome, completing the journey of the Via ...

I teach at a private college in South Dakota, and each fall, usually around the third week of September when the leaves shake themselves loose, we open up Geoffrey Chaucer’s masterpiece, The ...

Prolific British author Doherty, whose historicals have ranged as far back in time as ancient Egypt and the age of Alexander the Great, offers an entertaining medieval mystery, the fifth in a series ...

In 1985, Mr. Kilinski, my senior-year high school English teacher, put Geoffrey Chaucer’s magnum opus “The Canterbury Tales” on the syllabus. The plot: A motley crew of people from different walks of ...

ALS patient Kermit Peterson, 70, walked a centuries-old road ending in Rome to raise awareness and funds for ALS research.

World-renowned biologist Richard Dawkins joins Larry Mantle to discuss his most comprehensive book on evolution yet. The Ancestors Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Houghton Mifflin), based ...