Prior to retiring, Curt Lindquist taught Religious Studies at Reinhardt University, a small university outside Atlanta, Georgia.  Although he was trained in classical fashion at Yale and Emory in Christian history and theology, he received Fulbright-Hays grants to India and China. Those experiences inspired him to learn more about the world’s great religious traditions.

Furthermore, he has been a hiker for decades. In earlier decades, he mostly walked in national parks around the USA. After his wife suggested that they walk the Camino de Santiago, the walking became an obsession.

During a 2017 sabbatical he combined his desire to learn about religious communities with his love of walking. He spent six months in Taiwan, Myanmar, India, Egypt, Israel, and Spain. In several of those countries, he had extended stays in religious communities; in Spain, he had the time to walk from St Jean Pied de Port to Santiago. That sabbatical inspired him to record his experiences in this blog “Explorations  in Body, Mind, and Spirit.” Since those initial blogs, he has tried to record, not a list of hostels and meals, but the “felt-experience” and the “immediate reflections” of these post-sabbatical walks.

Thanks for reading.